Medical Interactive Education selects only experienced faculty physicians who are highly respected
in their individual subspecialty fields and are also proven educators. They offer the benefit of broad
clinical experience combined with a solid educational background, and their understanding encompasses
critical issues pertaining not only to diagnosis and natural history but also to drug treatment of
individual disease processes.
Dr. John Dougherty, founder of Medical Interactive Education and Medical Director of the Cole Neuroscience Center
(Memory Disorder Program) at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has had extensive clinical experience and varied
leadership roles in the medical field. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina and his medical
degree from the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis. He trained at Cornell University New York Hospital in
Neurology and completed a two-year fellowship at Cornell in cerebrovascular disease. Dr. Dougherty is an Assistant Professor
of Medicine in Neurology at the University of Tennessee and is codirector of the Brain and Spine Institute at the
University of Tennessee Hospital. For the past 10 years he has specialized in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and has
published numerous articles on those topics.
