William C.
Levin Lecturer on Health Care and Diversity
UTMB
established the Diversity in Health Care Scholarship to honor William C.
Levin, UTMB President Emeritus. A person that represents a commitment to
diversity gives the William C. Levin Lecture each year during Diversity
Week. A scholarship in that person’s name is given to a UTMB student who
through an essay demonstrates their commitment to diversity in the health
professions.
Lecturers on Health Care and Diversity
2007
Emily Friedman
Emily Friedman is an independent writer, lecturer, and health
policy and ethics analyst based in Chicago. She is contributing editor of
Hospitals & Health Networks and contributing writer for the Journal
of the American Medical Association, Health Progress, and other
periodicals. Ms. Friedman also writes a regular column for Hospitals &
Health Networks Online. She was contributing editor and ethics columnist
for the Health Forum Journal from 1986 until July 2003, when the
journal terminated publication. She is most noted for her work in health
policy, health care trends, health insurance and managed care, the social
ethics of health care, health care for the underserved, health care history,
population demographics, and the relationship of the public with the health
care system. More
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Essay Winner:
Christof Straub, Graduate School Biomedical Sciences
...read essay
2006
Commissioner Albert Hawkins
Hawkins
is the chief executive commissioner responsible for guiding the operations of the state's
health and human services agencies, covering 46,000 employees and an annual
budget of $20 billion. Before his appointment as executive commissioner, Hawkins
served as an aide to President George W. Bush. In that role, he was the primary
liaison between the president and the Cabinet members, and he chaired a working
group responsible for making recommendations on race-related policies to the
president. Hawkins joined the Legislative Budget Board in 1978, and he became
the board's deputy director in 1994. In 1995, then-Governor Bush appointed
Hawkins as the director of the Governor's Office of Budget and Planning. He has
a master's degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a
bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Essay Winner: Anissa E. Hill, 1st Year
School of Allied Health Department of Occupational Therapy
...read essay
2005
Vivian Pinn, M.D.
Dr. Vivian W. Pinn is the first full-time director of the Office of Research
on Women's Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an
appointment she has held since November 1991. In February 1994, she was also
named as Associate Director for Research on Women's Health, NIH. Dr. Pinn
came to NIH from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.,
where she had been Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology since
1982, and has previously held appointments at Tufts University and Harvard
Medical School.
Essay
Winner: Pooja Amy Shah, 4th Year Medical Student ...read essay
2004
Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.
Louis
W. Sullivan, M.D., former president of Morehouse School of Medicine, is a
nationally respected figure in the fields of medicine, public health; and
policy, and is widely regarded for his pioneering leadership in the area of
health professions education, particularly his efforts to address the unique
problems faced by those from underrepresented populations.
Dr. Sullivan’s decades-long leadership of Morehouse, in all its
incarnations, began in 1975, and was only once interrupted during his
tenure, when in 1989, Dr. Sullivan was appointed by President George Bush as
secretary of health and human services (HHS).
He is the founding president of the Association of Minority Health
Professions Schools and 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 serves as
board chair for the Medical Association for South African Blacks and for the
Association of Academic Health Centers. Dr. Sullivan is a member of the
Institute of Medicine, a fellow and master of the American College of
Physicians, a member of the Association of American Physicians, and the
recipient of numerous distinguished awards and honors.
Essay
Winner: James Marroquin, 4th Year Medical Student...read essay
2003
Jordan Cohen, M.D.
As
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Medical
Colleges, Jordan J. Cohen, MD leads the Association’s support and service to
the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals. His almost 40-year
career in academic medicine has included positions at some of the most
prestigious institutions in the country. Most recently, he served as dean of
the medical school and professor of medicine at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook, and president of the medical staff at University
Hospital. Dr. Cohen held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School, Brown
University, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the University of
Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. He has served as Chair of the American
Board of Internal Medicine and the Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education, and has been a Regent and Vice Chair of the Board of
Regents of the American College of Physicians. He is the author of more than
100 publications and is an editor of Nephrology Forum. Dr. Cohen received
his BA from Yale University and his MD from Harvard Medical School.
Essay Winner: Adam
Lee Sewell, 1st Year Medical Student
