Luke Howell, DO, is a family medicine physician and the associate program director of the Methodist Family Medicine Residency. He assists with curriculum development, recruitment, faculty development and teaching and mentoring residents.

Dr. Howell attended medical school at VCOM – Virginia. He completed his residency in family medicine at Virginia Tech Carilion Family Medicine Residency. He served as the Education Chief Resident and earned the VTC school of medicine’s Resident Teacher of the Year award.

He is interested in helping his patients live healthy lifestyles and is passionate about educating the next generation of physicians. He says, “One of the reasons that I accepted the APD role is to play a part in helping build a program to train the next generation of family physicians. The mentoring physicians who trained me were profoundly influential on how I approach medicine now and I hope to have a similar effect on the residents that we train at Methodist. I have a passion for teaching and a desire to instill in residents a similar spirit in how they educate their patients in the clinic and hospital.”