Calvin Thigpen

Who is Calvin Thigpen?

Samuel "Calvin" Thigpen was the male winner of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's highest academic honor, the 1999 Walter Byers Award, in recognition of being the nation's top male scholar-athlete. Thigpen became a Rhodes Scholar, and he returned to obtain is M.D. at University of Mississippi School of Medicine. In Medical School Thigpen was president of his medical school class and received the Medical Student of the Year award. He obtained his M.D. in 2005.

He subsequently completed three years of training in Internal Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and served one additional year as Chief Resident in the Department of Internal Medicine at the same institution. He then completed a fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, during which he was named "Fellow of the year" three years in a row. Currently, Dr. Thigpen serves as an attending Oncologist at the University of Mississippi, as well as an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program.