[caption id="attachment_36529" align="alignleft" width="120" caption="Friends of Roberts remember him for his positive attitude and tremendous spirit, even while struggling with cystic fibrosis, a disease which produces excess mucus in the lungs and digestive system.
Samuel "Hughes" Melton, a family practice doctor who graduated from the Medical School in 1993, received the national 2011 Family Physician of the Year Award from the American Academy of Family Physicians on Wednesday. Melton was honored for his primary care treatment of addiction and chronic pain in the Appalachian region of southwest Virginia and for taking an active role in the community in which he practices. Upon completing his family medicine residency at the University three years after graduating from the Medical School, Melton partnered with Dr. Brian Easton, with whom he shared a common vision.
