Dr. Ralph Bell serves as the Chief Medical Officer for the Mississippi Department of Corrections, using his knowledge and experience across a wide range of medical topics.

Dr. Bell graduated with honors from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1970. Dr. Bell has more than 55 years of diverse experiences, and specialized in emergency medicine. In this capacity, Dr. Bell treated a wide range of acute conditions and injuries.

In 2008, he transferred from emergency medicine to wound care. Dr. Bell became a disability consultant in 2014 to include medical legal matters.

Dr. Bell is known and appreciated by many healthcare professionals and patients from all over the State of Mississippi.

His wife, Connie, and son, Zachary, are very close, Ms. Connie learned to cook from Dr. Bell’s mother all his favorite southern dishes. At the top of the food favorites list is chicken and dumplings, fried chicken and a variety of fruit cobblers.