Mississippi Academy of Family Physicians

Awards

Family Physician of the Year Award Recipients

Known as the John B. Howell Memorial Award, this award is presented annually to a physician contributing the most to the development of Family Medicine in Mississippi. It was established in memory of Dr. Howell, a pioneer in the practice of Family Medicine and long-time delegate to the American Academy of Family Physicians.

* James Otis Stephens, MD, 1977
* Charles R. Jenkins, MD, 1978
* William H. Parker, MD, 1979
Joseph E. Johnston, MD, 1980
* Hardy B. Woodbridge, MD, 1981
* Addison T. Tatum, MD, 1982
Ralph L. Brock, MD, 1983
* William B. Hunt, MD, 1984
* Charles D. Taylor, MD, 1985
* Max L. Pharr, MD, 1986
* James C. Waites, MD, 1987
*Tom H. Mitchell, MD, 1988
Eugene G. Wood, Jr., MD, 1989
J. Edward Hill, MD, 1990
Walter H. Rose, MD, 1991
*John M. Patterson, MD, 1992
* Eugene F. Webb, MD, 1993
* Dewitt G. Crawford, MD, 1994
*Walter D. Gunn, MD, 1995
* Frank W. Bowen, MD, 1996
J. Gilbert Alexander, MD, 1997
D. Stanley Hartness, Jr., MD, 1998
Dayton E. Whites, MD, 1999
* Austin P. Boggan, MD, 2000
* David L. Clippinger, MD, 2001
* Kelly S. Segars, Sr., MD, 2002
Dwalia South-Bitter, MD, 2003
*Leonard H. Brandon, MD, 2004
Harry C. Frye, MD, 2005
* William A. Middleton, MD, 2006
* Howard D. Clark, MD, 2007
George R. Bush, MD, 2008
* Albert L. Gore, MD, 2009
Louis A. Rubenstein, MD, 2010
*Ben J. Kitchings, MD, 2011
*Gary D. Holdiness, MD, 2012
Lucius M. Lampton, MD, 2013
*James Calloway, MD, 2014
Word M. Johnston, 2015
John F. Hassell, MD, 2016
Isaac Aultman, MD, 2017
Timothy Alford, MD, 2018
Bill Jackson, MD, 2019
Jack C. Evans, MD, 2020
Robert Lee Giffin, MD, 2021
*Katherine T. Patterson, MD, 2022
David B. Wheat, MD, FAAFP, 2023

* Deceased

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