Personal Note

My wife, Mary Beth, and I have three children. I enjoy fishing, hunting, traveling, snow skiing and being a Boy Scout leader.

Education and Training

A graduate of Southern Methodist University, Dr. Wooten attended Tulane University School of Medicine. While in medical school, he was a research assistant in pharmacology at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. After medical school, Dr. Wooten completed an internship and residency in internal medicine and then completed his fellowship in gastroenterology at the Mayo Clinic (in Rochester, MN) in 1987. Upon finishing his fellowship, he returned to his hometown of Memphis, where he joined Dr. McCloy as a partner at The Gastroenterology Center. Eight years later, he co-founded Gastroenterology Center of the MidSouth in 1996, now Gastro One. He was certified in Internal Medicine in 1984 and Gastroenterology in 1994 by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He was recertified in both disciplines again in 2010.

Professional Memberships

Fellow of the American College of Physicians Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology Member of the American Liver Foundation Member of the American Gastroenterological Association Member of the Tennessee Medical Association Member of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America Mayo Alumni Board of Directors

Publications

Wooten RS, Orteiza RM, Kenner CT, Graham RE, Biehl ER. Kinetics and Mechanism of Blue Tetrazolium Reactin with Corticosteroids. J Pharm Sci. 66: 1385-88, 1977. Wooten RS, Biehler ER, Kenner CT, Graham RE. Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies of Blue Tetrazolium Reaction with Phenylhydrazines. J Pharm Sci. 67:927-30, 1978. Wooten RS, Pratt CB, Hustu HO, Kumar APM. Rhabdomyosarcoma in Children Under Two Years of Age. Cancer. (Submitted for publication)