Meet Our Core Faculty: Sumner Abraham, MD
Posted by [email protected] on Dec. 2, 2020 / Subscribe 0
Sumner Abraham is a core faculty member for Baptist Memorial Hospital North Mississippi. Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Dr. Abraham completed undergraduate at Ole Miss in the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College with a degree in Sociology and senior thesis on the role of COX-2 inhibition in cardiovascular remodeling in the department of BioMolecular Sciences. Abraham went on to UMMC in Jackson to complete medical school where he was elected to the Carl G. Evers Society. He moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, to pursue his internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia.
While at UVA, he was awarded a Mullholland Society Teaching Award and the Anne L. Brodie Resident Clinician Award. The Mulholland Award is given by UVA School of Medicine to a resident or fellow at the University of Virginia to recognize his or her excellence and dedication in teaching and educating medical students, while the Brodie Award recognizes a resident physician at the University of Virginia who demonstrates clinical excellence in primary care and serves as a role model for peers for their artful, compassionate, patient-centered care and willingness to take primary responsibility for the care of the whole person. Dr. Abraham was selected to serve as Chief Resident for the Department of Medicine at UVA, prior to returning to Oxford to establish his practice at Internal Medicine Associates.
Dr. Abraham’s wife, Sarah, and two young boys are all thrilled to call Oxford home. Dr. Abraham holds an Adjunct Instructional Assistant Professor position with the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College at Ole Miss where he teaches bioethics (this academic year he is teaching a class titled “On Death & Dying”). He is also adjunct clinical faculty with William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Abraham's clinical and research interests are in ethics of care at the end of life, death and dying, and the philosophical presumptions that cause providers and patients to view medicine as a means of control rather than an embodiment of presence and care. He is an active member of the American College of Physicians and the Mississippi Rural Health Association.
0 Comments