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Mitchell Named President of Howard University Hospital

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has been named president of Howard University Hospital. Mitchell is uniquely qualified to lead Howard University Hospital, bringing decades of strong leadership experience and insight from regional, national and international healthcare roles,” said John Sackett, president and CEO of Adventist HealthCare. Mitchell, Jr.,

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Remembering Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint: A Pioneer for Diversity in Medicine and Education

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Dr. Alvin Poussaint For more than five decades, Poussaint served as a beacon of change at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he worked as faculty associate dean for student affairs and founding director of the HMS Office of Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs. Dr. George Q.

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

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Johns Hopkins Hospital will rename its outpatient center to honor former cardiac surgeon Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., Watkins was the hospital’s first Black chief resident, the university’s first Black full professor of cardiac surgery, and the first African American graduate from Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine. “I

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Renowned UC Berkeley Sociology Professor Killed in Oakland Hit-and-Run

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He was rushed to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead. He was also the founding editor of Global Dialogue magazine and served as co-chair and secretary of the Berkeley Faculty Association from 2015 to 2021. The driver fled the scene, leaving Burawoy critically injured.

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First African American Woman Tenured in the College of Education at Clemson University, Passes Away

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Crosby was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated and the first female member of the board of trustees at the Greenville Hospital System. “Dr. Jackson, selected a book and sat down to read it and was handcuffed and jailed by the local police.

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Rutgers Plan to Merge Medical Schools Met with Pushback

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Dr. Jonathan Holloway Faculty concerns and disagreements surrounding a potential merger culminated in a Jul. However, opposing faculty argue that such a merger would provide little benefit for clinical care and medical education, given that the two schools collaborate anyway. A merger would take five years.

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Vassar President Dr. Elizabeth Bradley Awarded a 2023 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Scholarly Work in Public Health

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Elizabeth 'Betsy' Bradley She is lauded for her efforts in hospital care quality and large-scale health system strengthening in the U.S. and abroad, having received the 2018 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research and having been elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2017.