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Hospital Honors Trailblazing Surgeon With Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D. Outpatient Center

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a trailblazer for Black medical professionals, The Baltimore Banner reported. Endowed Scholarship Fund for minority medical students in 2009. Johns Hopkins Hospital will rename its outpatient center to honor former cardiac surgeon Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. who was a pastor at his family’s church.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

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In 2009, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University in New Orleans, an HBCU and the only Black Catholic institution in the world. Dunn chose to attend Xavier as an undergraduate with hopes of becoming a medical doctor. Williams took a pay cut leaving the corporate world, but he knew it was worth it.

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Health Equity, Working to Identify Effective Policy Interventions

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Since 2009, she’s been engaged in research relating to health services and health equity, she said. “My Hung is assistant professor of health services policy and management in the University of South Carolina’s (USC) Arnold School of Public Health. She has spent the better part of 14 years in this field. Hung earned her Ph.D.

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Doing What’s Right

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She is also the founding chairperson of the department of surgery and the first associate dean for post-graduate medical education at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. The center works to build capacity in the field, educate practitioners, conduct biomedical research, and examine medical ethics. In the U.S.,

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A Commitment to Community Health

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Formalized in 2009, the network seeks to empower other promotores in communities by way of resources, education, and training on a variety of topics and issues. “We Do you give them the medical information and then walk away? Carbajal describes the network as “community-created, community-driven.” Well, that’s how our community is.

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Access Agreement Will Allow Independent Testing at Poe Hall

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Dr. Darren Masier, an assistant professor of human resource management at Meredith College, worked as a graduate student at Poe Hall between 2009 and 2013. Independent testing is slated to begin the week of July 29 and last for one week. Masier, through The Law Offices of F. Bryan Brice, Jr., It could save your life.”

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A Snapshot in Time: The Cancer Cluster at NC State

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Masier spent hours within Poe Hall as a graduate student and assistant between 2009 and 2013. Knowing exactly what was going on in that building can absolutely have an effect on early detection, to have that knowledge, so your medical providers can detect something that you might not have looked at otherwise.