meet dr. clen damon moore

Dr. Clen Damon Moore (Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics), is the University of Mississippi’s twenty-third Rhodes Scholar (Mississippi and Oriel, 1987). He is also the first African American elected to a Rhodes Scholarship from the state of Mississippi. Entering Ole Miss twenty years after James Meredith, Damon was a charter member of the University Honors Program, having graduated as valedictorian of Coldwater High School in 1982. At Ole Miss he pursued a premed track, majoring in English and minoring in chemistry. As a junior, he received the University’s highest academic award for individual achievement, the Taylor Medal, for excellence in English. As a senior, he was president of AED (premed honor society) and was elected to Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities. After graduating summa cum laude with a BA in English in 1986, Damon began his medical studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, taking a two-year leave of absence to earn a second BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, before returning to Hopkins to complete his MD in 1992. He completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle before returning to Byhalia, Mississippi as a pediatrician in the National Health Service Corps. For the last twenty-three years he has been a physician partner in private practice in Northern Virginia at Pediatric Healthcare. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Make a Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic and since 2015 has chaired the Charitable Foundation and Philanthropic Committee of Loudoun Medical Group. Dr. Moore was one of two pediatricians nationally recognized with the Local Heroes Award by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2012; and while his first newborn patients are now in graduate school, he continues his work with the next generation as physician, mentor, and friend. Dr. Moore is one of only three alumni elected by the University of Mississippi to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, receiving this signal honor in 2020.