USA General Surgery Physician Staff
 Coleman L. Arnold, MD, FACS
 Donald E. Barker, MD, FACS
 R. Phillip Burns, MD, FACS
 W. Todd Cockerham, MD, FACS
 Benjamin W. Dart IV, MD FACS
 S. Clark Kennedy, MD, FACS
 Robert A. Maxwell, MD, FACS
 Vicente A. Mejia, MD, FACS
 Philip W. Smith, MD, FACS
 Craig S. Swafford, MD

University Surgical Associates provides general surgical care in the Chattanooga region for patients with hernias and breast disease, as well as a wide range of surgical services relating to the abdomen, including surgery of the gallbladder, stomach and colon.

General surgery is the initial training paradigm for essentially all other fields of surgery and encompasses a wide range of conditions including intraabdominal, gastrointestinal, cancer, endocrine, breast, blood vessels and hernias.