1985
Earns a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from the University of Mississippi, cum laude.
1989
Receives a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
1990
Undertakes residencies in general surgery at various hospitals until 1997.
1996
Rescues Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice following a near-fatal automobile crash.
1997
Is an emergency physician at Community Emergency Physicians Inc. and King’s Daughters Health until 2002.
2002
Is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic Fellows Association and the Minnesota Medical Association until 2004 and 2006, respectively.
2002
Is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine through today.
2003
Receives a Mayo Clinic Teaching Award and later serves as a senior associate consultant at the Mayo Clinic Foundation for Medical Education and Research until 2006.
2007
Is the director of trauma and surgical care and assistant professor of clinical surgery and at the Morehouse School of Medicine until 2010 and 2013, respectively.
2007
Is an attending surgeon at Grady Memorial Hospital until 2019.
2008
Is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons through today.
2010
Speaks at the Centers for Disease Control on two occasions and the Federal Drug Administration six times on the subject of vitamin D through today.
2012
Introduces the concept of vitamin deficiency to U.S. Army generals as a national security threat.
2014
Serves as a professor of clinical surgery at the Morehouse School of Medicine until 2019.
2015
Is honored by Governor Tate Reeves and the Mississippi State Legislature for his research on vitamin D.
2017
Serves as the director of the surgical intensive care unit at Grady Memorial Hospital until 2019.
2018
Speaks before the United Nations; Is inducted as Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
2019
Name is engraved on the Wall of Honor at the Royal Society of Medicine; Submits patent for vitamin D use on patients with brain injuries.
2021
Pioneers the use of high dose vitamin D treatment to care for a patient with a brain stem injury; Secures provisional patent for vitamin D use in COVID patients.
2023
Is recognized by Authority Magazine as one of their Heroes of the COVID Crisis.