Dr. Henson is a native Mississippian and, as he likes to say, he entered UMMC in August 2001 for medical school and never left! A native of Jackson, he studied biomedical engineering at Mississippi State University prior to med school. He completed his med/peds training at UMMC in 2009, then spent one year as a chief resident in the Department of Medicine. He was brought onto the UMMC faculty following his chief year and began serving as an associate program director in the internal medicine residency program in 2010 and also the Med/Peds residency program in 2013. He became med/peds program director in 2018. Clinically, he prefers to be as “med/peds” as he can - still working in both inpatient and outpatient clinical settings in both internal medicine and pediatrics. He has a particular interest in resistant hypertension and adolescent hypertension and was the principle investigator for the SPRINT trial at UMMC. As a native Mississippian, he has always felt called to serving his home state and his home city and volunteers at several local charities around the city. His greatest achievement was convincing his wife, Anna, to marry him between his first and second year of medical school. They live just three miles from the hospital with their three children and one rotten dog. He can be seen running around the local neighborhoods early most mornings of the week to clear his mind and get him ready for the day. He is also active as a deacon and Sunday School teacher at his church, and he is still holding out hope of becoming a roadie for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band one day. |