Faculty

Chair

• Shannon D. Pittman, MD - Professor and Chair

Professors

• Ann M. Butler Kemp, MD - Associate Residency Director
• Janet L. Ricks, DO - Residency Director and Director, Osteopathic Family Medicine

Associate professors

• Molly S. Clark, PhD, ABPP - Director of Health Psychology Fellowship in Family Medicine
• James Anthony Cloy, MD - Director of Community Student Health Program for Department of Family Medicine
• John R. Mitchell, MD - Director of the Office of Mississippi Physician Workforce
• David R. Norris Jr., MD, MA, FAAFP - Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs
• Holly H. Peeples, MD
• Sonya Shipley, MD, FAAFP

Assistant professors

• Kristen Alston, PhD
• Kimberly A. Bibb, MD
• Kelley M. Bishop, MD
• Ardarian Gilliam Pierre, MD
• Sheree C. Melton, MD - Director of Student Programs
• Tobe Momah, MD
• Deborah S. O'Bryan, MD - Quick Care physician
• Rhonda Odom-Funches, MD
• Joyce I. Olutade, MD - Medical Director, Student and Employee Health
• Amanda Rice, MD
• Evelyn Walker, MD, MPH
• Irma H. Welch, MD

Adjunct faculty

• Brian J. Tollefson, MD - Director, Sports Medicine Fellowship; Director, Emergency Ultrasound; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery

Additional appointments in Family Medicine

• Gene R. Barrett, MD - Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, UMMC
• Bettina Beech, DrPH, MPH - Dean of School of Population Health; Executive Director, Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for Elimination of Health Disparities; Professor, Department of Pediatrics
• Penni Smith Foster, PhD - Professor, Academic Consultant of Office of Academic Support, UMMC Division of Academic Affairs
• Natalie W. Gaughf, PhD, ABPP - Professor, Director of UMMC Academic Counseling Services
• Joshua Mann, MD - Professor and Chair, SPH Department of Preventive Medicine
• R. Stephen Manuel, PhD - Assistant Professor, Associate Dean of Admissions, UMMC
• Patrick O. Smith, PhD, ABPP - Professor, Family Medicine; Chief Faculty Affairs Officer, UMMC - SOM Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs

Professors Emeritus

• Diane K. Beebe, MD - 2017
• Robert C. Forbes, MD - 2016
• Judith Gore Gearhart, MD - 2015
• Warren A. Jones, MD - 2012
• Wilfred Reginald Gillis, MD - 2011
• Deirdre M. Phillips, MD - 2006
• Thais B. Tonore, MD - 2019