1989

• Medical School: University of Maryland, Baltimore
• Internal Medicine: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• Residency Internal Medicine: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• Fellowship Cardiology: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas

• Board Certified in Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease
• Board Certified in Nuclear Cardiology

• Baptist Memorial Hospitals
• Saint Francis Hospital
• Methodist Hospitals

• Obesity and Coronary Artery Disease: An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure
  Midsouth Wellness Guide
  By Richard J. Gordon, M.D., FACC
  February 2010
  Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of death in the US in both men and women. Coronary artery disease involves a narrowing of the blood vessels that supply blood to the heart muscle...

• Consultative Cardiology
• Echocardiography
• Nuclear Medicine
• Preventative Cardiology
• Cardiac Catheterizations
• Pacemaker Implantation

Dr. Richard Gordon has devoted the last five years of his practice to providing cardiac care for patients in the surrounding areas of Memphis. He travels on a daily basis to areas such as Ripley, Munford, Millington, Somerville and Oakland. He has worked hard to build a rapport with the physicians and nurse practitioners in these areas to provide the best possible patient care in these communities. Stern Cardiovascular Center and Dr. Richard Gordon are particularly excited to be opening a testing center in Munford that offers state of the art nuclear testing and echocardiography at an outreach facility. “I am excited to join one of the premier groups in Memphis so together we can serve not only the residents of Memphis but those in the surrounding areas.”