Dr. Kevin J. Batte is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and graduated cum laude. While attending the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine, he won the Carl Gustav Evers award, which is presented to a senior medical student who has demonstrated qualities of scholarship, peer-to-peer support, and exceptional leadership in student activities of the American Medical Association and the Mississippi State Medical Association. Prior to starting medical school, he assisted in emergency room procedures at Mississippi Baptist Hospital as an emergency room technician. He also worked at the University of Mississippi Medical Center as a poison information provider, where he assisted individuals and healthcare providers throughout the state in overdose, ingestion, and toxin exposure situation