Healthy Memphis Common Table
 

Leadership

Community Partners Council - advises and helps to set the agenda for the Healthy Memphis Common Table. 

  • Provides leadership
  • Evaluates and proposes future Common Table initiatives
  • Meets at least three times per year

   Council members (2007): 

  • Jim Bailey, MD - General Internal Medicine & MK Callison Associate Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
  • Denise Bollheimer - VP, Marketing & Managed Care, UT Medical Group & Chair, Healthy Memphis Common Table
  • Mike Cates, EVP - Memphis Medical Society
  • Jay Cohen, MD - Medical Director, The Endocrine Clinic, PC
  • Teresa Cutts, PhD - Senior Scholar, Methodist Interfaith Program & Community Affairs, UTHSC
  • Bob Duncan - VP, Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center
  • Dawn Fitzgerald - CEO, QSource
  • Nieika Geeter-Parks, MPH, PhD - Memphis City Schools Office of Coordinated School Health
  • Gary Gunderson, M.Div., D.Min. - Director, Interfaith Health Program, Emory; SVP, Methodist Healthcare
  • Peg Hartig, PhD, APN, BC - Chair, Dept. of Primary Care & Public Health, UTHSC College of Nursing
  • Superintendent, Memphis City Schools
  • Manoj Jain, MD - Medical Director for Quality Improvement, QSource and infectious disease specialist
  • Patria Johnson - Program Manager, Memphis Healthy Churches and Christ Community Health Services
  • Yvonne Madlock, MAT - Director, Memphis & S. C. Health Department
  • Barbara McClanahan, EdD, PhD - University of Memphis, Health and Sport Sciences
  • Cynthia Nunnally - Deputy Administrator, Population-Based Services, Memphis & S.C. Health Dept.
  • Chris Peck - Editor, The Commercial Appeal
  • Stephen Reynolds - President & CEO, Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp.
  • Marilynn Robinson - SVP, St. Francis Healthcare (Tenet) & co-pastor, St. Andrew AME Church
  • Gary Shorb - President & CEO, Methodist/Le Bonheur Healthcare
  • Bruce Steinhauer, MD - Infectious disease specialist at The MED
  • Art Sutherland, MD - Retired cardiologist, Church Health Center volunteer & Board Secretary, Healthy Memphis Common Table
  • Cristie Travis - CEO, Memphis Business Group on Health
  • Al Wooten - FedEx International Integrated Marketing

Board of Directors – responsible for corporate governance, policy development, operational and developmental issues. 

  • Denise Bollheimer - Board Chair (VP, Marketing & Managed Care, UT Medical Group, Inc.)
  • Jody McKibben - Treasurer (Affiliate Broker, Investec Realty Services)
  • Art Sutherland, MD - Secretary (retired cardiologist: Sutherland Clinic & volunteer, Church Health Center)
  • Al Wooten - Vice Chair (Senior Project Manager, FedEx)
  • Jim Bailey, MD, MPH - Director & former chair (General Internal Medicine, UTHSC & UT Medical Group, Inc.)
  • Jay Cohen, MD - Director (pediatric endocrinologist & Med. Dir., The Endocrine Clinic, PC)
  • Cevette Hall - Director (quality improvement, BlueCross BlueShield of Tenn.)
  • Rev. Kenneth Robinson, MD - Director (Sr. Pastor, St. Andrew AME Church & Former Commissioner of Health, Tennessee)
  • Cristie Travis - Director & former chair (CEO, Memphis Business Group on Health)
  • Beverly Williams-Cleaves, MD - Director (endocrinologist, UTHSC & UT Medical Group, Inc.)