About Dr. John

Dr. Rudd was born in West Tennessee in 1955 and is a native lifelong Tennessean. He is the son of a country doctor that had practiced near Memphis after being released from the service in WWII. He is the oldest of five siblings and went to public school in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He attended undergraduate college at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville receiving a bachelor’s degree in cell biology. He attended the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis to attain his Doctorate of Medicine degree in 1980. He completed an internal medicine internship and residency with a chief residency divided between gastroenterology and nephrology.

Dr. Rudd returned to Middle Tennessee after completing his work in Memphis to begin a practice in internal medicine in 1984. At this point in time, he had privileges at the Rutherford Hospital later to become St. Thomas Rutherford and Stones River Hospital in Woodbury Tennessee. He now maintains privileges both in Murfreesboro and Smyrna at StoneCrest Hospital. He became interested in addiction medicine in the 1980’s and was board certified as an addiction specialist at that time. He is board certified in internal medicine and maintains an active practice. He also provides medical care and supervision of health services to Rutherford County for inmates at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center, the Rutherford County Work Center, and the Rutherford County Juvenile Detention Center. Dr. Rudd also supports sobriety opiate addicted patients by maintaining a suboxone clinic for them at markedly reduced costs. Dr. Rudd has four children and four grandchildren. Dr Rudd also actively supports the Haven which is shelter for homeless women and children and is active in his church.