Meharry Medical College is a private historically black medical school affiliated with the United Methodist Church and located in Nashville,Tennessee. Founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College,it was the first medical school for African Americans in the South. While the majority of African Americans lived in the South,they were excluded from many public and private racially segregated institutions of higher education,particularly after the end of Reconstruction.
Louis Wade Sullivan is an active health policy leader,minority health advocate,author,physician,and educator. He served as the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services during President George H. W. Bush's Administration and was Founding Dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine.
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society (ΑΩΑ) is an honor society in the field of medicine.
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science is a private university in Willowbrook,California,focused on health sciences. It was founded in 1966 in response to inadequate medical access within the Watts region of Los Angeles,California. The university is named in honor of Charles R. Drew.
Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is a private medical school in Atlanta,Georgia. Originally a part of Morehouse College,the school became independent in 1981.
Regina Marcia Benjamin is an American physician and a former vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who served as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. Benjamin previously directed a nonprofit primary care medical clinic in Bayou La Batre,Alabama,and served on the board of trustees for the Morehouse School of Medicine.
The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved is an academic journal founded in 1990 by David Satcher,then President of Meharry Medical College who later became the 16th Surgeon General of the United States. JHCPU is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press for Meharry and is affiliated with the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved.
Robert Lee "Bobby" Satcher Jr. is an American orthopedic surgeon,chemical engineer,and former NASA astronaut. He participated in two spacewalks during STS-129,accumulating 12 hours and 19 minutes of extravehicular activity. Satcher holds two doctorates and has received numerous awards and honors as a surgeon and engineer.
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) has a long history with an evolution in medical understanding,diagnoses and social perceptions.
David Sheffield Bell is an American physician who has done extensive research on the clinical aspects of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). He has also conducted evaluations and research in pediatric ME/CFS and written numerous articles about the condition.
Helene D. Gayle is an American physician,and academic and non-profit administrator. She has been president of Spelman College since 2023. She formerly was CEO of the Chicago Community Trust,one of the nation's leading community foundations. Earlier in her career she was the director of international humanitarian organization CARE,and spent much of her career in the field of public health research in epidemiology at the CDC.
Matthew Walker Sr. was an American physician and surgeon. He was one of the first African Americans to become a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He was one of the most prominent Black doctors in the 20th century in the United States.
Anthony L. Komaroff is an American physician,clinical investigator,editor,and publisher. He serves as the Distinguished Simcox-Clifford-Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Stephen E. Straus was an American physician,immunologist,virologist and science administrator. He is particularly known for his research into human herpesviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome,and for his discovery of the autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome genetic disorder. He headed the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,National Institutes of Health (NIH),and served as the founding director of the NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Valerie Montgomery Rice is an American obstetrician,gynecologist,and college administrator. She is the president and dean of Morehouse School of Medicine.
Camara Phyllis Jones is an American physician,epidemiologist,and anti-racism activist who specializes in the effects of racism and social inequalities on health. She is known for her work in defining institutional racism,personally mediated racism,and internalized racism in the context of modern U.S. race relations. During the COVID-19 pandemic,Jones drew attention to why racism and not race is a risk factor and called for actions to address structural racism.
Kisha Braithwaite Holden is a scientist known for her research on mental health of African-Americans and members of other minority groups. She is professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and community health &preventive medicine and interim director of Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI) at Morehouse School of Medicine.
Jeffrey P. Koplan is an American physician and epidemiologist who is the Vice President for Global Health at Emory University. He established and became the first Director of the Emory Global Health Institute from 2006 to 2013. Koplan was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1998 to 2002;he had previously worked at the CDC for more than twenty years,looking into HIV-contaminated blood,as well as the Bhopal disaster. During his tenure as Director,he fought syphilis,and supervised the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks;before leaving the agency in March 2002.
LaMar Hasbrouck is an African-American physician,CDC-trained medical epidemiologist,and public health leader. Hasbrouck is the former executive director for the National Association of County and City Health Officials,and former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health and State Health Officer for Illinois. He is a health policy contributing writer for The Hill,recurrent guest on CNN,former host of AMA Doc Talk,a podcast by the American Medical Association and managing Director for DLM LLC,a health consulting firm.
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