John Standridge, M.D., is a professor in the department of family medicine at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga.  He is the program director for the geriatric medicine residency and is the medical director for both the Council for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services, and the Alexian Health Care Center.  Dr. Standridge is the author of more than 40 scientific publications. He and his wife, Lynna Ruth, and their beagle, Molly McGuire Delaney, reside in Chattanooga, Tennessee.