Richard Reinking received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Oklahoma and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is currently practicing medicine at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he serves as a medical director. Among his many honors and privileges, Richard has served as president of the Oklahoma Academy of Family Physicians, taught medical students and residents, given lectures on a variety of clinical and medical administrative topics at local, state, and national forums, and has been a contributing author for several national publications of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Richard was named the 2011 Oklahoma Family Physician of the Year.

In the community, Richard has provided medical care at free clinics in the Tulsa area; coached his son’s baseball teams; mentored youth on mission trips to assist the poor of rural Kentucky, inner-city Houston, Reynosa, Mexico, and Jamaica; traveled to Africa on multiple occasions to provide medical care in rural Tanzania; and served as chair of the board of Literacy & Evangelism International, with the mission of improving literacy among the world’s poorest nonreaders, particularly in Africa, South America, and Asia.

Richard and his wife, Karen, live in Norman, Oklahoma. They have three children, Amy, Rachael, and Daniel, and four grandchildren, McCartney, Bobby Grace, Brooks, and Luke.