• 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