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and lifestyles. "There is no biological reason for any difference in the state of health or death rate among Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans." "We can do quite a bit to improve those statistics/' continued Dr. Sullivan. "That is what my department is going to be about." He said that when he met with President Bush in December they talked about such matters. He said Mr. Bush is committed to improving the health as well as the education of Blacks, and noted the President's recent visits to historically black colleges and universities. Dr. Sullivan received several citations at the reception at which he was accompanied by his wife, the
former Eva Williamson. The awards noted his medical achievements. General President Henry Ponder presented Dr. Sullivan with a plaque on behalf of the Alpha brotherhood. Mayor Marion Barry, also an Alpha, presented the guest of honor with a proclamation from the city. Artie Polk, President of Iota Upsilon Lambda Chapter, gave Dr. Sullivan a plaque from the three sponsoring chapters—Mu Lambda, Washington, D.C., Kappa Epsilon Lambda, Prince George's County, Maryland, and Iota Upsilon Lambda, Montgomery County, Maryland. Steve Boykin, District VI director, presented a plaque from the Eastern Region. Dr. Ponder, President of Fisk Uni-
versity in Nashville, was introduced by LeRoy Lowery, III, President of Mu Lambda. Cleveland Haynes, president of Kappa Epsilon Lambda, introduced Dr. Sullivan. Welcoming remarks were given by Dr. Hardy R. Franklin, Director of District of Columbia Public Libraries and a member of the fraternity. Presiding over the program was Robert H. Myers, Jr., General Sergeantat-Arms, who is a member of the Prince George's County Chapter. Myers headed a committee which planned the event. Members were Charles A. Guilford, KEL; Morris Hawkins, Jr., Mu Lambda; and George O. Walker III, IUL. • B y Eddie Madison
LOUIS W. SULLIVAN, Phi Beta Kappa Scholar and Morehouse Medical School Founder Is Prepared To Serve The Nation In July, 1975, at the age of 41, Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., became the founding dean and director of the Medical Education Program at Morehouse College. He was named the first President and Dean of the Morehouse School of Medicine when it became independent from Morehouse College on July 1, 1981. A former professor of medicine at Boston University, Dr. Sullivan is a native of Atlanta and an alumnus of M o r e h o u s e College, g r a d u a t i n g magna cum laude in 1954. He received his medical degree, cum laude, from Boston University in 1958 and completed his internship and m e d i c a l r e s i d e n c y at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Following a one-year p a t h o l o g y fellowship at the M a s s a c h u s e t t s G e n e r a l H o s p i t a l , Dr. S u l l i v a n became a fellow in hematology at the Thorndike Research Laboratories of Harvard Medical School at the Boston City Hospital. Dr. Sullivan has been an instructor in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and an assistant professor of medicine at the New Jersey College of Medicine. In 1966, he became co-director of hematology at the Boston University Medical Center. From 1966 to 1975, he was, successively, assistant professor of medicine, associate professor of medicine, and professor of medicine at Boston U n i v e r s i t y School of Medicine. Professional honors received bv
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Dr. Sullivan include election to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society in 1957 (while a medical student at Boston University), election to the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 1970, to Phi Beta Kappa in 1974, to the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences) in 1975, to Fellowship in the American College of Physicians in 1980, and from 1985 to 1987 he served as Vice Chairman of the Commission on Health and Human Services of the Southern Regional Education Board. Dr. Sullivan, whose research interests are in hematology, was the founding president of the Association of M i n o r i t y H e a l t h P r o f e s s i o n s Schools. He'is a former member of the Joint Committee on Health Policy
of the Association of American Universities and the National Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities. Dr. Sullivan has been a member of the Atlanta Rotary Club since 1977. Other honors received by Dr. Sullivan i n c l u d e : Boston U n i v e r s i t y Alumni Award for Distinguished Public Service in 1985; Honoree of the Year of the State Committee on the Life and Health of Black Georgians in 1983; recipient of the Drum Major Award by the Southern Leadership Conference in 1982; the establishment of the Sterling Drug Company endowed annual lectureship at the Morehouse School of Medicine, in h o n o r of Dr. S u l l i v a n , in 1980; recipient of the Outstanding Alumnus Award from New York H o s p i t a l Cornell Medical Center in 1984; Honoree of the National Association of M i n o r i t y Medical E d u c a t o r s (NAMME) for outstanding contributions to the education of minorities in medicine in 1984; the first Martin Luther King Visiting Professorship at the University of Michigan in 1986; the Equitable Regional Black Achievement Award for Education in 1986; and the Atlanta Urban League Award for Outstanding Community Leadership in 1987. Dr. Sullivan was one of the three black leaders in the United States to serve as a member of Vice President George Bush's official 12-member delegation to seven African countries in mid-November, 1982.
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