Nashville Oncology Associates Physicians

Karl M. Rogers, M.D.

Karl M. Rogers, M.D. grew up in the American Virgin Islands where he received a B.A. in Chemistry in 1980 from the University of the Virgin Islands. After receiving his M.S. in Public Health in 1983 from the University of Pittsburgh, he attended Rush Medical College in Chicago where he received his M.D. degree in 1987. Upon graduation, Dr. Rogers moved to Nashville where he completed a medical internship and residency at Baptist Hospital in 1990. He then completed a medical oncology fellowship at Vanderbilt University in 1993. The American Board of Internal Medicine certifies Dr. Rogers in internal medicine and medical oncology.

Dr. Rogers currently holds the following academic appointments:

Instructor of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Baptist Hospital, 1993 - Present
Attending for Medical Housestaff Teaching Service, 6/93 - Present
Adjunct Instructor, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, 7/1/00 - 6/30/02

Dr. Rogers is an active member of the Nashville Oncology Society, Nashville Academy of Medicine, Tennessee Medical Association, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Cancer Society, American Medical Association, American College of Physicians and is currently serving as Director of Baptist Hospital's Cancer Center and Baptist Hospital Institutional Review Board.


Carl R. Willis, M.D.

Dr. Willis was born and raised in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1985, he graduated valedictorian from Tuskegee Institute High School. He then enlisted in the United States Army Reserve in 1985 where he received training as a combat medic, as well as training as a surgical assistant (operating room technician). After receiving his Bachelors of Science degree in Biology and Biochemistry in 1989 from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, he attended the University Of Alabama School Of Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama where he received his Doctor of Medicine in 1993.

After completing medical school, Dr. Willis received his commission as a Captain in the United States Army, Medical Corp. He completed his internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC in 1996. Dr. Willis then completed his fellowship training in Hematology and Oncology at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland in 1999. During this time, he also participated in a Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Translational Research in Hematological Malignancies in Baltimore, Maryland.

Following completion of his training, Dr. Willis served as a staff Hematologist/Oncologist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for five years, as well as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD.

Dr. Willis is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the disciplines of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology and Hematology.

In June 2004, Dr. Willis received an honorable discharge from the United States Army and became an associate with Nashville Oncology Associates, PC. He currently serves as an Instructor of Medicine for the University of Tennessee Internal Medicine Training Program based at Baptist Hospital, and serves on several hospital committees. He is married with one son, and is a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church.

Dr. Willis is also an active member of the Nashville Medical Society, the Tennessee Medical Association, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the American Society of Hematology.