Education:

• Marshall University School of Medicine
  Doctorate of Medicine

• Bowman Gray School of Medicine
  Internal Medicine Residency

• West Virginia University
  B.A. in Biology and M.S. in Biochemistry

 

Primary Specialty:

• Internal Medicine/Geriatrics

• Private Practice

 

Professional Experience/Interests:

• Boone Memorial Hospital, Physician

• Private Practice, Madison Medical Group

• Professor of Medicine for the West Virginia University
  School of Medicine

• Former Member, University System of WV Board of Trustees

• Former Member, Higher Education Policy Commission

• Past Chairman of the Corridor G Regional Economic Development
  Authority Board of Directors

• Former Member, Vision Shared WV

• Former Board Member, Physicians Mutual Insurance Company

• President, Boone County Medical Society

• President of the WVSMA, 2003

 

Awards and Honors:

• WV State Senator, 2006-present

• WVSMA Rural Physician of the Year, 1994

• Inaugural Oral Health Champion Award

• WV Oral Health Coalition, 2013

• Marshall School of Medicine

• Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, 2012

• Council of State of Government

• Co-Chair, Health Policy Committee, 2014-present

 

Practice Location at Boone Memorial Hospital:

• Inpatient Care/Hospitalist