Hamilton County mayor Jim Coppinger has named Blaise Baxter, MD, to the Hamilton County Hospital Authority Board of Trustees, the governing body of Erlanger Health System.
Dr. Baxter is the Chief of Radiology for the Erlanger Health System and the Chairman of Radiology for the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga.
Dr. Baxter is a neuro-interventional radiologist. He received his medical degree and completed a neuroradiology fellowship at Dalhousie University Halifax in Nova Scotia.
The Southeast Regional Stroke Center at Erlanger is the second largest acute stroke center in the United States, Dr. Baxter helped develop it after moving to Chattanooga in 1999. He has received worldwide recognition for stroke research and intervention and helping to refine techniques employed in performing stroke intervention.
“Dr. Baxter’s impressive medical credentials bring another element to an outstanding Erlanger Board. I am confident Dr. Baxter’s insight will serve the medical community and Hamilton County well during his board tenure,” Coppinger, said.
Currently, Dr. Baxter serves as the Vice President of the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery (SNIS) and he will become SNIS president in the summer of 2017.