Morehouse School of Medicine News Center
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Why We Need More Black Doctors - And How to Get There
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 - The Wall Street Journal features President and Dean Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, in the most recent installment of its series "The Future of Everything."
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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $26.4 Million Gift to Morehouse School of Medicine
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 - Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) has been awarded $26.4 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies, a foundation created by entrepreneur and former New York Mayor and Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.
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MSM Pipeline 'Gold Standard' for Increasing Physician Diversity
AUGUST 31, 2020 - "Diversity in the physician workforce has known benefits--including improved patient outcomes--and medical schools are working to create more of it. Morehouse School of Medicine is a gold standard in doing so," writes the American Medical Association's Brandon Murphy.
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Bank of America Delivers 20,000 Facemasks to MSM
AUGUST 25, 2020 - Morehouse School of Medicine recently received a donation of 20,000 facemasks from Bank of America, part of an initiative to donate personal protective equipment including 146,000 masks to 14 local organizations.
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Building a Health Culture in America
AUGUST 25, 2020 - President Emeritus Louis W. Sullivan, MD, chairman of the Sullivan Alliance, and US Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George H.W. Bush, co-authored this piece calling for rebuilding our public health infrastructure, from ratcheting up biomedical research to reversing the chronic underfunding of local, state, and federal health services.
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Faculty Member among Alabama's 'Women of the Century'
AUGUST 25, 2020 - The USA Today Network recently recognized Hadiyah-Nicole Green, PhD, assistant professor of surgery, as one of Alabama's "Women of the Century" alongside such luminaries as Rosa Parks, Harper Lee, Coretta Scott King, and Condeeleza Rice.
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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, MSM Welcomes Its Largest Class
AUGUST 25, 2020 - In June, most HBCUs were racing against the clock to come up with a plan for what the fall semester would look like or rolling out and then revising strategies to safely re-open. But at Atlanta's Morehouse School of Medicine, faculty, staff, and most future physicians were already back training, teaching and learning -- virtually and in person.
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Thoughts on a Lifetime of Leadership and Learning
AUGUST 25, 2020 - Congratulations to David Satcher, MD, on the publication of his latest book, "My Quest for Health Equity: Notes on Learning While Leading" by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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MSM Part of $15M Thermo Fisher Scientific COVID-19 Initiative
AUGUST 13, 2020 - Morehouse School of Medicine is one of the first five Historically Black Colleges and Universities to benefit from a $15 million Thermo Fisher Scientific initiative that will make COVID-19 testing more widely available to all returning students, faculty, and staff just in time for the start of the fall semester.
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AAMC Issues Consensus Guidance on Facemasks
AUGUST 12, 2020 - While America's health care workforce has played a critical role since COVID-19 infected its first patient in the United States, physicians and scientists alone can't save American lives from being lost to COVID-19, states the AAMC.
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