Tamton Mustapha, MD was born in Calicut Kerala, India in 1941. He went to medical school in India and graduated in 1964. He practiced medicine for close to two years in India before coming to Brooklyn, NY in 1966. Since then he had a general medical residency in Brooklyn VA Hospital and then Grasslands Hospital in Valhalla. Afterwards he did a two-year residency in Gastroenterology at Montefiore Hospital at Albert Einstein Medical College in the Bronx.

In 1972 he started his Gastroenterology practice at 848 Columbia St., Hudson. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine as well as Gastroenterology. He is a fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology and is a member of the American College of Physicians, American College of Physician Executives, American Gastroenterological Association as well as many other medical organizations. He is the past president of the medical staff of Columbia Memorial Hospital, as well as Chief of Medicine of the Medical Department of Columbia Memorial Hospital. He was Chairman of the Quality Assurance Committee of the PSRO of Hudson Valley. He has held the position of President of the Columbia County Medical Society multiple times. He has given numerous talks on Gastroenterology related problems in these two counties, Columbia and Greene. He was also on the teaching faculty of Albany Medical Center.

His outside activities are quite a few. He is past master of Kedemiah Lodge and belongs to Cyprus Shrine of Albany. He was the past president of the Hudson Rotary Club, as well as past District Governor of Rotary District #7210 comprising all the eight counties of the Hudson Valley. He is also involved in the Rotary International and travels abroad for charitable purposes. He has served on the Medical Advisory Committee for Medicaid at the New York State Health Department. His wife, Dr. Rahma Mustapha, a Physiatrist, is also in the same practice. Dr. Mustapha has two daughters, Monisha and Mumtaz, and a son, Nigel.

He cherishes the two awards given to him; one the Volunteer of the Year Award given by the American Heart Association out of Ulster, Greene and Columbia Counties and, two, the Rotarian of the Year given to him out of the eight counties of the Hudson Valley - Columbia, Greene, Ulster, Sullivan, Orange, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess Counties.