Calvin Thigpen

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Samuel "Calvin" Thigpen graduated from the University of Mississippi with Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Math in 1999.{{cite web|url=https://www.djournal.com/news/hed-ole-miss-senior-awarded-rhodes-scholarship/article_abc6fa30-1d90-548c-8f1a-16178b093b23.html|title=HED: Ole Miss senior awarded Rhodes Scholarship|accessdate=September 30, 2019|date=December 7, 1998|work=Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal|author=Elkins, Ashley}} He served as associated student body president from 1997 to 1998. While ASB President he led the student charge to remove the confederate flag from home football games by passing a "stick ban" in the student senate.{{cite web|url=https://www.apnews.com/956b59d03e0f85e90134c72de4ac2143|title=32 Rhodes Scholars Announced|accessdate=September 30, 2019|date=December 7, 1998|work=Associated Press}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/scholarships/byers/winner_list|title=Previous Walter Byers Scholars|accessdate=January 26, 2008|publisher=The National Collegiate Athletic Association|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705151433/http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/scholarships/byers/winner_list|archivedate=July 5, 2008|df=mdy-all}} Thigpen was named a Rhodes Scholar{{cite web|url=http://www.rhodesscholar.org/win99.html|title=Recently Elected U.S. Rhodes Scholars|accessdate=January 26, 2008|publisher=rhodesscholar.org}} in December 1998, and studied at Oxford University, Brasenose College from September 1999 through June 2001. He then returned to Mississippi and received his M.D. at University of Mississippi School of Medicine. In medical school, Thigpen was president of his medical school class, editor of the student newspaper "The Murmur," and received the Medical Student of the Year award.{{cite web|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/chancellor/renaissance/ttss.html|title=Top Student Scholars|accessdate=January 26, 2008|publisher=olemiss.edu}} He obtained his M.D. in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/alumni/notable/scholars.html|title=The University of Mississippi: Notable Scholars|accessdate=January 26, 2008|publisher=University of Mississippi Alumni Association|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031005001/http://www.olemiss.edu/alumni/notable/scholars.html|archive-date=October 31, 2007|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://medres.umc.edu/fellowship/hematology.php|title=Hematology/Oncology |accessdate=May 26, 2012|publisher=University of Mississippi Medical Center}} Currently, Thigpen serves as a clinical internist and rotating hospitalist at the University of Mississippi, as well as Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, the largest residency program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.{{cite web|url=https://www.ompw.org/som/Departments%20and%20Offices/SOM%20Departments/Medicine/Educational-Programs/Internal%20Medicine%20Residency%20Program/Welcome-to-Our-Program/Letter-from-Our-Program-Directors.html|title=Program Leadership|accessdate=September 30, 2019|date=|publisher=University of Mississippi Medical Center}}