James W. Hampton, MD, FACP

Dr. Hampton received an undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma and a medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and Signa Xi. He was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research trainee and completed a five year fellowship in Hematology / Medical Oncology at the University of Oklahoma hospitals. Dr. Hampton was an NIH Career Development Award recipient and spent a year at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He was head of the Hematology / Medical Oncology section in the Department of Medicine for five years at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and during this time he served on the curriculum committee that designed the clinical experience of medical students in their first year. He founded the Stewart Wolf Society, the Alumni Association of the Department Medicine in 1976. He convened the founders meeting of the Robert Montgomery Bird Society in his home in 1976 and presented an original painting to Dr. Bird which now hangs in the Health Science Center library named for his mentor. He served as a member of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) where he did research in cancer, thrombosis and hemostasis. He was a charter member of the OMRF Institutional Review Board and still works with them. He was elected a Fellow in the American College of Physicians in 1971. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and serves as Medical Director of the Troy and Dollie Smith Cancer Center at Integris Baptist Medical Center. He served as chair of a Network for Cancer Control Research for the National Cancer Institute for ten years. He was selected to be a member of an Institute of Medicine investigative panel and coauthored their publication "The Unequal Burden of Cancer", An Assessment of NIH Research and Programs for Ethnic Minorities and Medically Underserved. He is a voting member of the Chickasaw Nation. He served twice as President of the Association of American Indian Physicians in 1979 and again in 1988, and was named Indian Physician of the Year in 1987 and again in 2000. He was honored as the Physician of the Year In Private Practice in 1988 by the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Alumni Association. In 1999 he was honored with the Humanitarian Award by the American Cancer Society at their annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a member of the steering committee for the American Medical Association's Minority Affairs Committee from 1997-2000. Dr. Hampton has been Editor in Chief of the Bulletin of the Oklahoma County Medical Society since 1982. He served on the Board of the Oklahoma County Medical Society and convened the meeting that founded the Hospice of Oklahoma County, a unique hospice sponsored by physicians. He is a collaborating partner of C-Change: Collaborating to Conquer Cancer led by former President George H.W. and Mrs. Barbara Bush. He is a past Chair of The Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC), a national organization committed to serving minority communities and underserved people with cancer. In 2006 he was honored by the ICC with their "Leap of Faith " Award at the Biennial Symposium in Washington, D.C. He is married and his wife, the Reverend Canon Carol Hampton, is an Episcopal priest at St. Paul's Cathedral in Oklahoma City. They have four children and seven grandchildren.

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