University of Mississippi Medical Center
JACKSON, Miss. – Xavier Person is a budding researcher, a promising medical student and a man with a plan.
He’s earning a PhD at the same time he’s tackling his MD, one of five new students in the UMMC School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences’ (SGSHS) largest MD-PhD entering class since that dual degree program debuted in 2002 with just two students.
“At Mississippi State University, I did research for three years, so I knew what I was getting into from the research aspect,” said Person, a Brandon, Mississippi resident who earned his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering, and whose research interests lie in neuroscience and psychology…