Gov. Tate Reeves has appointed Lucius M. “Luke” Lampton, MD, of Magnolia, to a six-year term on the Mississippi State Board of Health. He has served on the Board since 2006 and is currently its Chairman. The fifth generation Mississippi physician has practiced Family Medicine for over three decades in the rural community of Magnolia, where he has an extensive private practice in multiple settings: clinic, hospitals, nursing homes, geri-psych care and hospice. His practice extends over Pike, Lincoln, Walthall, Amite and Marion counties.
Dr. Lampton graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with Honors in History from Rhodes College in Memphis. He also graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, where he completed a residency in Family Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Family Practice and has been named a Fellow by the American Academy of Family Physicians. As medical director of Hospice Compassus of McComb, he received the R. Sean Morrison, M.D. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Hospice Physician Leadership.
He is also a prolific writer, having published hundreds of articles and essays in the Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association, where he serves as chief Editor; contributed many chapters to Conn’s Current Therapy, a respected medical reference book; authored “Images in Mississippi Medicine: A Photographic History of Medicine in Mississippi;” and contributed a chapter to “The Racial Divide in American Medicine: Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care.” He is editor and publisher of two of the state’s oldest weekly newspapers, the Magnolia Gazette and the Hinds County Gazette, and has written several book introductions, with his work featured on BBC, History Channel, CSPAN, Mississippi ETV and Turner South.
Dr. Lampton is President-Elect of the Mississippi State Medical Association and past President of the Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians. He has served as delegate to the American Medical Association, Vice Chair of the Mississippi AMA Delegation, member of the AMA Southeastern Delegation Executive Committee, and delegate to the American Academy of Family Physicians Congress. He has taught hundreds of medical students, residents, physician assistants and nurse practitioners and helped found the Southwest Health Family Medicine Residency Program. He serves as a Clinical Associate Professor at Tulane Medical School and William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and on the clinical faculty for UMMC and the Mississippi College Physician Assistant Program. He helped establish the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship Program and Mississippi’s Office of Physician Workforce. He is Vice President of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Board of Trustees and past-President of the Foundation of Mississippi History. He currently serves on the South Pike School Board and the Board of the Mississippi School of the Arts Foundation.
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