Dr. Poussaint is Professor of Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital, Director of Neurooncologic Imaging, Director of the Pediatric Neuroradiology Fellowship, Chair of Boston Children's Hospital's Institutional Review Board, and Director of the Neuroimaging Center and Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. She is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and has served in several professional organizations including the ASNR, RSNA and SPR. She is a Past-President of the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology (ASPNR). She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Yale University School of Medicine.

Dr. Stone is Chair of the Department of Medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital and the Charles S. Davidson Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a nationally recognized expert in HIV/AIDS care, and her research focuses on disparities in HIV/AIDS care by race/ethnicity and gender. She is previously the director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program and Associate Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was also the first African American woman promoted to full professor. Dr. Stone was a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians and Chairperson of their Education Committee until 2014. She served on the Board of Directors of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts for nearly a decade, and she has been a community health educator for Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) for more than 20 years; she received their Community Hero Award in 2017. She earned her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and her Master of Public Health Degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.]]> Click here to go to transcript.]]]> ]]> ]]> Click here to go to transcript.]]]>
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The photograph was taken for the Boston Herald American in Boston on April 5, 1976, during a protest against court-ordered desegregation busing. The photograph, considered a symbol of the turmoil of the Boston busing crisis, won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot Photography.

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Wright graduated from Clark University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1911 as class valedictorian, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1915. During his fourth year, he stayed out of classes for three weeks to demonstrate against a showing of The Birth of a Nation. Wright graduated cum laude, and ranked fourth in his class. Despite his academic achievement, he was asked to march at the end of the procession rather than his rightful place at the head.

He applied for internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Boston City Hospital, and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and was turned down from each hospital. He accepted a position at the segregated Freedman’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.

At the end of his internship, in 1916, Wright look the licensing exam in Maryland, Georgia, and New York, achieving high scores in each state. He returned to Atlanta to practice with his step-father, and was then commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the US Army Medical Corps.

In 1919, he settled in New York City where he opened a general practice of surgery in Harlem, and was appointed Assistant Physician in the Health Department Venereal Disease Clinic. He also accepted a position as Clinical Assistant Visiting Surgeon at Harlem Hospital. Throughout his career, Wright fought to integrate and improve Harlem Hospital and was eventually made Surgical Director of Harlem Hospital.

In 1934, Wright took over chairmanship of the NAACP’s Board of Directors, which he occupied until his death in 1952.

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She entered Harvard Medical School as a member of the class of 1951 in 1947. She was the first woman to complete a surgical internship at Boston City Hospital. After graduating from Harvard Medical School, she became the first woman doctor at Boston University Medical Center, eventually becoming assistant clinical professor of surgery, and the first woman member of the Boston Surgical Society.

Dr. Jefferson spent much of her career as an advocate for pro-life causes. She was a founder of the Massachusetts Citizens for Life, a member of the National Right to Life Committee's board of directors, a well as the founding president of the Right to Life Crusade, Inc.

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He wanted to specialize in surgery, but after being denied the opportunity by Boston-area hospitals, he turned to research. In 1912, he began working part time as a volunteer assistant in the Department of Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and for three years performed autopsies on all persons suspected of having syphilis. He then worked at the Wassermann Laboratory which was the Massachusetts State Laboratory for communicable diseases at Harvard Medical School. In 1915, the Wassermann Laboratory was transferred from Harvard Medical School to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Hinton was appointed Assistant Director of the Division of Biologic Laboratories and Chief of the Wassermann Laboratory, a position he served for 38 years.

Dr. Hinton began teaching at HMS in 1918 as Instructor in Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, and in 1921, his responsibilities expanded to include Bacteriology and Immunology. He was appointed Instructor in Bacteriology and Immunology in 1946, twenty five years after his first appointment. He was promoted to Clinical Professor in 1949 – the first African-American Professor at Harvard University. He only gained promotion one year before his retirement. ]]>
After leaving Harvard Medical School, Delany went on to become a leader in several arenas, including abolition, reconstruction, and medicine. He was a physician, author, activist, soldier, and is considered by many to be the father of Black Nationalism. Delany died in 1885 in Wilberforce, Ohio.

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Dr. Crawford completed his residency at the U.S. Naval Hospital Chelsea (Boston), and Combined Harvard Orthopaedic Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Crawford became the Director of Orthopaedic Surgery at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in 1977 and remained chief for 29 years. He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, and among his achievements was serving as the first African American president of the Scoliosis Society.

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Howard H. Hiatt MD was born in Patchogue, New York. He enrolled in Harvard College in 1944, and ascended to Harvard Medical School without first earning his A.B. degree.

Dr. Hiatt was the first Blumgart Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the physician-in-chief at Beth Israel Hospital from 1963 to 1972. In 1972, he became the dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a role he held until 1984.

In 1985, he resumed teaching at Harvard Medical School and as Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Partners in Health, and a member emeritus of the Task Force for Global Health. He is a leader in the field of human rights.



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J. Emilio Carrillo, MD was born in Cuba and attended Columbia College in New York City. He earned his MD and MPH degrees from Harvard Medical School (1976) and the Harvard School of Public Health. Chan School of Public Health. He trained at Massachusetts General Hospital and Cambridge Hospital.
He is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College and Clinical Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Health Services Research at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.

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Topics include growing up in Peekskils, New York, attending Harvard College, training at Harvard Medical School, entering the Air Corps and becoming part of the Tuskegee Airmen program, completing a surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, eye surgery, working in Haiti at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, serving as Director of Community Health at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Medical Director of the Wrentham Developmental Center, and as Founder of FAMILY, Inc. a non-profit which creates secure and nurturing environments of mutual supports in which all children and families can thrive. ]]>
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Andre L. Churchwell, MD, graduated from the Vanderbilt School of Engineering magna cum laude in 1975. He attended Harvard Medical School and earned his medical degree in 1979. He completed his internship, residency, and cardiology fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Churchwell is a Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Senior Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.


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