Gregory Bledsoe

Dr. Gregory H. Bledsoe is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, author of the medical text Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, and served as Arkansas Surgeon General from 2015 to 2023 after appointment by Governor Asa Hutchinson.[1][2][3] A fourth-generation Arkansan who graduated from Bob Jones University in 1995 with a BS in premed, he completed medical school and residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, followed by a fellowship and MPH at Johns Hopkins.[1][3][4] He has worked globally in emergency medicine, served as a medical consultant for the U.S. Secret Service, and was the personal physician to former President Bill Clinton during a 2002 Africa tour.[1]