Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton has hired Dr. Craig Blakeney as emergency medicine medical director, Dr. Rusty Carroll as medical director of radiology and Dr. Katherine McFarlin as hospitalist medical director.
“We’re excited to welcome Drs. Blakeney, Carroll and McFarlin to Baptist Tipton,” said Parker Harris, CEO and administrator of Baptist Tipton. “They all have impressive backgrounds with expertise that will greatly contribute to the breadth of services we offer the Tipton County community.”
Dr. Craig Blakeney will manage emergency department flow, patient satisfaction and hospital administration. He attended the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine and completed a residency in emergency medicine there in 2018 and a fellowship in emergency medical services at Mayo Clinic in 2021. He is also an adjunct assistant professor for the University of Tennessee Emergency Medicine Residency Program.
As medical director of radiology, Dr. Rusty Carroll will oversee the operational, financial, programmatic and personnel activities for the Radiology department. A graduate of the UT Health Science Center College of Medicine, Dr. Carroll completed an internal medicine internship in 2010, a diagnostic radiology residency at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in 2014 and a fellowship at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in 2015.
In her role, Dr. Katherine McFarlin will provide clinical and administrative leadership for Baptist Tipton. Dr. McFarlin’s credentials include an Associate of Nursing degree and registered nurse license in 2006 and a Bachelor of Science in nursing in 2010 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She earned a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Lincoln Memorial University DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2019 and completed her residency at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro, Arkansas, in 2022.
