Who We Are
Principals:
Dr. John Dougherty, founder of Medical Interactive Education, the ALZselftest and Medical Director of the Cole Neuroscience Center (Memory Disorder Program) at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, has had extensive clinical experience and varied leadership roles in the medical field. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina and his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis. He trained at Cornell University New York Hospital in Neurology and completed a two-year fellowship at Cornell in cerebrovascular disease.
Dr. Dougherty is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Neurology at the University of Tennessee and is co-director of the Brain and Spine Institute at the University of Tennessee Medical Center. For the past 10 years he has specialized in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and has published numerous articles on those topics.
Andrew Dougherty is co-founder of Medical Interactive Education and the ALZselftest, studied finance and information systems at Tulane University and received his M.B.A. with concentrations in finance and innovation and entrepreneurship from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He works as a consultant for a national venture capital fund, assisting in developing financial models, business plans and market strategies. He has worked with several startup companies with experience in multiple industries. He spearheaded the creation of Medinteract.com, including implementation of online training presentations for physicians. Additionally, he developed and implemented the plan for marketing the ALZselftest.
Director of Cognitive Research and Testing
Rex L. Cannon, Ph.D. received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Psychology and director of the clinical neuroscience laboratory at UT and director of the cognitive neuroscience laboratory at Cole Neuroscience Center, Memory Disorder Clinic. He completed his Ph.D. in experimental psychology with an emphasis in neuroscience methods, neurophysiology and biological psychology.
Dr. Cannon is author of several book chapters and has published numerous neuroscience papers in peer-reviewed journals, including the first work demonstrating that human beings can learn to change the electrical activity in specific regions within the cortex using spatial specific neuro-operant learning. He has received awards for research presentations and was recently nominated by the National Institute of Drug Abuse for a young investigator award. Dr. Cannon has collaborated on a book chapter about the efficacy of neurofeedback for treatment of substance use disorders, and is developing statistical models for reporting psychotherapy and addiction treatment efficacy. He received several awards during his graduate training, including the Cureton Award for outstanding scholarship in the areas of psychometrics and neuropsychology.
Dr. Cannon has presented research at Columbia University and Harvard Medical School. More recently, he has introduced a standard protocol for assessing treatment outcomes for psychiatric syndromes. He has developed chemical dependency assessment instruments and a treatment model incorporating standardized group therapy and spatial-specific neurofeedback training.
Director of Sales/Marketing
Jennifer McClurg Roth joined ALZselftest.com after 7 years in the high tech, embedded software industry, with an MBA in Finance and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Jen also founded and ran an online social media training company, and managed her own consulting firm for 5 years. Jen is an exceptional relationship manager, with a long history of creating and maintaining valuable partnerships and alliances. Like so many, her own family has suffered with Alzheimer’s Disease, and her passion for this cause complements her experience in sales, marketing and executive coaching. Jen is also a Big Sister with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Knoxville.
Director of Operations & Finance
Travis Haynes earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee and later received his M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from the University of Tennessee.
Travis started his career in Knoxville with Regions Bank where he successfully developed and implemented a residential construction/permanent loan program for the East Tennessee region. Prior to joining Medinteract, he worked as an Associate with C&J Valuation Advisors where he provided business valuations for a variety of situations, offered buy-side and sell-side assistance during merger and acquisition transactions, and assisted in real estate component cost segregation and financial analysis.
Travis holds the Certified Merger and Acquisition Advisor credential from the Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors and recently passed Level I of the CFA program. Travis actively participates in the Young Professionals of Knoxville.
