A pediatric surgeon, Carr helped upgrade ambulance services and through his career served as pioneering surgeon, educator and advocate for emergency responders. Read more here.

Yium was Chattanooga's first nephrologist, providing the region's only specialized kidney care for years and conducting the first kidney transplant at Erlanger hospital. He has been a long-time volunteer at Project Access and at many free clinics and charity hospitals. Read more here.

Weeks is administrator and chief nursing officer at Erlanger North. She has worked as a nurse and administrator at Erlanger her entire 41-year professional career. Read more here.

Chattanooga's first heart doctor, Puckett has been medical director of Project Access since its inception and helped lead a program that has helped more than 12,000 people over the past 12 years. Read more here.

Smalley has worked as a nurse practitioner with obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Phyllis Miller for the past 22 years, caring for multiple generations of women while raising her daughter after the death of her husband. She has been director of a rural health department and a volunteer for homeless health programs. Read more here.

An engineer turned physician, Worthington has been a leading physician, educator and administrator who, over a half century career, built the University of Tennessee College of Medicine's Department of Family Medicine residency program at Erlanger hospital. Read more here.

As a surgeon, educator and volunteer, Arnold has provided health care for thousands of patients, including many he has served on volunteer mission trips to Third World countries, and help teach many other surgeons as a teacher to many future doctors. Read more here.