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John Barham Ragland 'Jack' Thomas


John Barham Ragland “Jack” Thomas, M.D. died on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, in Roanoke, Va., of Alzheimer’s disease.
Jack was born to Bonner Gibbs Thomas and Emily Grant Thomas in Erwin on Nov. 13, 1951, their third and last child. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with a major in Mathematics Phi Beta Kappa and graduated from medical school at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFU), receiving the Vidinghoff Award in Family Medicine. He stayed at WFU for his residency in Family Medicine and was co-chief resident. In Winston-Salem, he began Salem Family Medicine (now Novant Salem Family Medicine) along with two friends from medical school and residency, John Roach, M.D. and Sherrill Braswell, M.D., and worked there for 35 years. He served Novant in several different administrative capacities, including medical director of Salem Family Medicine and chair of Novant’s computerized medical record committee, while maintaining his first l ....

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