Скачать или смотреть 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award: Jim Jones ('55, MD '59)

He calls himself a country doctor, but Jim Jones brings new meaning to the expression.

After graduation, he remained true to his rural eastern North Carolina roots and devoted a lifetime to practicing in those underserved communities. He also founded the family medicine program at East Carolina University. This country doctor was the first native American to graduate from Wake Forest, the first to graduate from Wake Forest’s School of Medicine and the first to serve as president of both the North Carolina and the American Academy of Family Physicians. He’ll also be the first to tell you it was no big deal.

Image Credit:

Digital Collections, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University.

Elmer W. Hunt Photograph Collection, the Mary Livermore Library, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.