Talks@12

Then to Now: Reflections by leadership on the evolution of diversity and inclusion at HMS

Speakers

Kevin Churchwell, MD
President and Chief Operating Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital
Robert and Dana Smith Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Nawal Nour, MD, MPH

Faculty Council Vice Chair, Associate Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Harvard Medical School
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Faculty and Students, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Scott Podolsky, MD
Director, Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Joan Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA
Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Fidencio Saldaña, MD, MPH
Dean for Students, Interim Director for the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Symposium

Better Together

Symposium Program

Celebrating our progress, recognizing our heroes and looking to our future
We will also honor the leaders of the 1969 movement to increase racial diversity at HMS.

 

Prologue: A commemorative poem
Rafael Campo
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Welcome
George Q. Daley
Dean, Harvard Medical School

Honoring the leaders and the history of the 1969 diversity movement at HMS

Harold Amos
Jonathan Beckwith
Elkan Blout
Robert Buxbaum
Robert Ebert
Leon Eisenberg
Edwin Furshpan
Warren Gold
Luigi Gorini
Edward Kravitz
David Potter
Torsten Wiesel
Edgar L. Milford (HMS student 1967-71)

Presented by

Jennifer Potter
Advisory Dean and Director, William Bosworth Castle Society, Harvard Medical School

Edward Hundert
Dean for Medical Education, Harvard Medical School

Shirley Marks
HMS student 1969-73

Honoring Alvin Poussaint

Presented by Mary Tate
Resident Physician in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern and Cook County Hospital

Commemorative stained glass by Jason Outlaw, DMD, DMSc, Founder of Vitraux Stained Glass

Reflections by Alvin Poussaint's former students

Matthew Plummer, HSDM ’73
Emilio Carrillo, HMS ’76
Woodrow Myers, HMS ’77
Nancy Oriol, HMS ’79
Thomas Sequist, HMS ’99
Fidencio Saldaña, HMS ’01
Uché Blackstock, HMS ’05

 

Where are they now?

An update on the 1,350 URM students admitted since 1969

Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie
Faculty Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
Assistant Director of the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs, Harvard Medical School

LaShyra "Lash" Nolen, Class President, HMS ’23

Jalen Benson, Student National Medical Association President, HMS ’23

Where are we now and where are we going?

Fidencio Saldaña
Interim Director for the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs
Dean for Students, Harvard Medical School

Joan Reede
Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School

Town Meeting on Diversity

George Q. Daley
Dean, Harvard Medical School

Closing Music

Jacqueline Boehme
Clinical Fellow in Anaesthesia, Brigham and Women's Hospital