Dr. Cory Barrows is joining our palliative care team. She started last month and will be seeing patients two days a week at West while continuing to care for patients at Regional One.  A 2020 graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, she completed her Palliative Care Fellowship at UTHSC in 2024. Barrows is already making an impact — she co-presented with Dr. Clay Jackson at the 2024 Tennessee Pain Conference on “Improving Naloxone Prescription and Overdose Education for Cancer Patients Co-Prescribed Opioids and Benzodiazepines: A Quality Improvement Study.” She was also selected to co-present at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Care on a West-based research study focused on patient safety by reducing co-prescription of opioids and benzodiazepines.

We are also pleased to announce that Dr. Wesley Jones will be joining our pathology team this June. Jones comes to us from Jacksonville, Florida bringing over a decade of experience, including leadership roles as Medical Director of the Blood Bank at Baptist Health System / MD Anderson, and Site Director of Stem Cell Collections at Wolfson Children’s Hospital.  Jones earned his medical degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, completed his residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and pursued fellowships in both Surgical Pathology and Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His clinical expertise and leadership will be a tremendous asset to our network and the patients we serve.