Clive O. Callender

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Clive O. Callender (born 1936) is an American surgeon and professor of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. [1] Trained in organ transplantation, he founded the Howard University Hospital Transplant Center in 1974. To increase the frequency of organ donation among African Americans he founded the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP) in 1991. [2] During the 2019/20 academic year he continued his academic work as Professor of Surgery at Howard University College of Medicine. [3]

Callender was born in New York City and attended public schools there. [1] He received a B.S. degree in chemistry and physiology from Hunter College and a M.D. degree from Meharry Medical College. [2] After surgical training at Harlem Hospital, Freedmen's Hospital, and Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Disease, he joined the faculty of Howard University College of Medicine in 1969. [1] After a fellowship in transplant surgery at the University of Minnesota with John Najarian and Richard Simmons, he returned to Howard University to found the Howard University Hospital Transplant Center in 1974, a first among historically black medical schools. [4] He was only the third African American transplant surgeon. [1]

To enhance organ donation among African Americans and hence improve transplantation outcomes, he founded the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP), [5] which received $16 million in funding over two decades from the National Institutes of Health Office of Research On Minority Health. [2] Since the beginning of the program African American organ donation rates more than tripled. [6] He was a leader in the fight against discriminatory policies in organ allocation. Authoring over a hundred scientific publications he became Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery at Howard University in 1996. He has been a national expert and spokesman promoting organ donation and transplantation among African Americans, who suffer disproportionately from chronic renal failure. [7] [8]

A lifelong Christian, he served as a medical missionary in Africa early in his career. [2] He was a featured speaker at the 2013 Annual Spirituality and Medicine Conference. [9] In 2014, he was honored with a National Minority Donor Awareness Award [10] and an honorary doctoral degree by Howard University. [11]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Dr. Clive Callender: Founder Of The National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP)". blackmail4u. blackmail4u.com. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "Clive O. Callendar, MD | Howard University Hospital | Washington, D.C." Howard University Health Sciences. Howard University Hospital. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  4. ↑ Stewart, Nikita; Harris, Hamil (21 Feb 2009). "Barry Kidney Transplant Completed; D.C. Council Member Was to Move to Intensive Care Afterward". Washington Post. Washington, DC. p. B1.
  5. ↑ Harris, Hamil (23 Feb 2000). "For Black Patients, The Need for Organs Exceeds Availability". Washington Post. Washington, DC. p. 14.
  6. ↑ Callender, Clive; Koizumi, N; Miles, Patrice; Melancon, JK (September 2016). "Organ Donation in the United States: The Tale of the African-American Journey of Moving From the Bottom to the Top". Transplant Proc. 48 (7): 2392–2395. doi:10.1016/j.transproceed.2016.02.094. PMID   27742306.
  7. ↑ Callender, Clive; Miles, Patrice (May–June 2004). "Institutionalized racism and end-stage renal disease: is its impact real or illusionary?". Semin Dial. 17 (3): 177–80. doi:10.1111/j.0894-0959.2004.17300.x. PMID   15144537. S2CID   26762424.
  8. ↑ Callender, Clive; Miles, Patrice (May 2010). "Minority organ donation: the power of an educated community". J Am Coll Surg. 210 (5): 708–15, 715–7. doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.02.037. PMC   2861044 . PMID   20421035.
  9. ↑ "Clergy, physicians to discuss spirituality, medicine connection". Washington Afro American. 24 April 2013.
  10. ↑ "National Minority Donor Awareness Week Honors Howard University Professor Clive O. Callender". Washington Afro-American. 6 August 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  11. ↑ Aratani, Lori (10 May 2014). "Music mogul Sean Combs receives honorary doctorate from Howard University". Washington Post.
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