Charles A. Portera Jr., MD completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and is a medical graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis. Dr. Portera completed his general surgery residency at East Tennessee State University and his surgical oncology fellowship at the prestigious M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. His areas of expertise include the surgical treatment of cancers of the colon, rectum, pancreas, liver, breast, skin and soft tissue, esophagus, and the stomach.

R. Hunter Jennings III, MD is a graduate of Davidson College and the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Jennings completed his residency at Emory with a fellowship in liver transplantation and surgical critical care. His interests include surgery of the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, abdomen, liver and biliary tract, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, breast, skin and soft tissue, endocrine system, and critically ill patients with underlying surgical problems.