Dr. Samuel “Calvin” Thigpen was elected President of the Southern Society of Clinical Investigation (SSCI) and begins his term this month. Dr. Thigpen completed his medical degree, internal medicine residency, chief residency, and hematology-oncology fellowship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He is now a Professor of Medicine and is the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director and Vice-Chair for Education of the Department of Medicine. He currently practices and teaches both inpatient and outpatient general internal medicine. Dr. Thigpen has been a member of the SSCI since January 2013 and a Councilor from 2019-2023. He served as Chair of the Membership Committee and guided the development of the SSCI’s Early Career Council in 2021 to stimulate membership, collaboration, and networking among the society’s early career investigators and educators. Dr. Thigpen has chaired the Career Advancement for the Clinician Educator workshops at the Southern Regional Meetings (SRM) since 2019, and he was recognized as the SSCI’s Mentor of the Year in the Post-Graduate Category at SRM 2022. Congratulations Dr. Thigpen!