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2020-COMMENCEMENT-PROGRAM-ONLINE-VERSION.Pdf THE 145TH C OMMENCEMENT J AMES E.K. H ILDRETH S R., P H.D ., M . D ., P RESIDENT & CEO PRESIDING Invocation. Reverend Robin H. Kimbrough-Hayes Chaplain and Senior Advisor to the President, United Methodist Church Affairs The National Anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key ............Performed by Ghislain Cohen, SOD-2 The Black National Anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by J.W. Johnson and J.R. Johnson .....................Ms. Cohen Opening Remarks ........................................................James E.K. Hildreth Sr., Ph.D., M.D. President and Chief Executive Officer Greetings ........................................................................Nelson L. Adams III, M.D. Chairman, Board of Trustees Daphne C. Ferguson-Young, D.D.S. Interim Chair, Faculty Senate Introduction of the Speaker ............................................................... President Hildreth Commencement Address ..............................................................Altha J. Stewart, M.D. Senior Associate Dean, Community Health Engagement, School of Medicine University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Memphis, Tennessee Presentation of Candidates for Degrees . .Dr. Adams and President Hildreth Conferral of Degrees and Professional Oaths School of Graduate Studies Oaths and Pledge. Evangeline Motley-Johnson, Ph.D., Dean School of Dentistry Dental Oath . Cherae M. Farmer-Dixon, D.D.S. ’90, MSPH ’94, FACD, Dean School of Medicine Hippocratic Oath .......................................Digna S. Forbes, M.D., Interim Dean The Induction of Graduates into the Alumni Association ......................................Lewis Hargett, M.D. President, Meharry National Alumni Association Recognition of Certificate in Health Policy Awardees . A. Dexter Samuels, Ph.D. Executive Director, Center for Health Policy Special Recognition ..................................................................... President Hildreth Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation ...............Kelley M. Denton, M.D. Graduating Senior Richard A. Akatue, M.D Associate Professor, Department of Medicine The Meharry Medical College Alma Mater ..........................................................Ms. Cohen Closing Remarks ........................................................................ President Hildreth The Benediction. Reverend Kimbrough-Hayes The Recessional “The Prince of Denmark March” by Jeremiah Clarke Presentation of candidates in Commencement video program by Monique Bennerman, M.D., FACP Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Meharry Medical College School of Medicine Musicians for video program: Alton Gibson, keyboards • John Lutz, trumpet 2 • MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE F ROM THE P RESIDENT J AMES E.K. H ILDRETH, P H.D ., M . D ., P RESIDENT & CEO For the graduates of the Class of 2020, the novel coronavirus, while it has inserted itself into the well-being of our communities, has not changed our enthusiasm to recognize your accomplishments. Never before have our hearts been so full of pride for a graduating class as they are now. We have high expectations of you. We believe you will refine the practices of medicine, dentistry and public health. You will confront the way things have been done to find new ways to do them. You will find new abilities and methods in caring for your patients and communities. You will develop ways to advocate for your patients and fight for health equity for all, regardless of race, class or gender. During this pandemic, we are encouraged by vignettes of humanity around us—the kindness, creativity, invention, giving and altruism—rising to meet the challenge. And then there’s the heroism on display everyday by those in the thick of the fight in places like New York, Detroit and New Orleans, where health care workers labor to the point of exhaustion and go home to grab a few hours of sleep only to return to the same nightmare. Perhaps this is actually a test. It’s a time for all of us to look around ourselves and evaluate what’s really important. What do we really treasure? What are we really made of? If providence has ever thrown down a gauntlet before a select group of people, it certainly has now. And for those joining that select group—physicians and dentists, biomedical Ph.D.s, and those with careers in public health—you’ve worked very hard to get to this day, and the next phase of your work is cut out for you. Meharrians must model the collegial, professional atmosphere of collaboration with other health care colleagues in the fight against this disease. Each of you in this graduating class is a beacon of light in a world troubled by the virus, whatever your chosen field. Congratulations to all of you! Never before in the history of the world has your keen insight been needed as much as it is now. The Kaiser Family Foundation says there are nearly 1.2 million professionally active physicians and dentists in the U.S. today. Of that 1.2 million, there are about 7,000 practicing Meharrians. That’s a little more than one in 200—just over one-half of one percent. Someone once said, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world— it’s the only thing that ever has.” Today, you are joining that small group of thoughtful, committed citizens the world knows as Meharrians. Welcome to the fold. 145TH COMMENCEMENT • 3 C OMMENCEMENT S PEAKER A LTHA J. STEWART, M.D. Altha J. Stewart, M.D. is Senior Associate Dean for Community Health Engagement for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. An Associate Professor and Chief of Social and Community Psychiatry, she is also Director of the Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth at the UTHSC. In 2018, she became the 145th President of the American Psychiatric Association, the first African American elected to this position in the 175-year history of the organization. Prior to joining the faculty at UTHSC, she served as Executive Director of the Memphis/Shelby County System of Care program. A native of Memphis, Dr. Stewart worked for decades as CEO/Executive Director in large public mental health systems in Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan, overseeing the management and development of programs for persons with mental illness and substance use disorders. She received her medical degree from Temple University Medical School and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Regis College in 2006 and Doctor of Science from her alma mater, Christian Brothers University in Memphis, in 2018. Dr. Stewart is past president of the Black Psychiatrists of America, the Association of Women Psychiatrists and the American Psychiatric Association Foundation. She is the recipient of the Memphis Child Advocacy Center Community Advocate Award, the Black Psychiatrists of America Lifetime Achievement Award, the HealthCare Hero–Physician Award from the Memphis Business Journal and the 2019 Annual Africa in April Executive of the Year award. 4 • MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE M EHARRY M EDICAL C OLLEGE Meharry Medical College, a United Methodist Church related institution, is the nation’s largest private, independent, historically black academic health sciences center whose primary focus is educating health science professionals. Since 1876, Meharry Medical College has been a leading educator of African-American physicians, dentists, biomedical scientists and public health professionals. Our mission is to improve the health and health care of minority and underserved communities by offering excellent education and training programs in the health sciences, placing special emphasis on providing opportunities to people of color and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, regardless of race or ethnicity; delivering high quality health services and conducting research that fosters the elimination of health disparities. Meharry Medical College is particularly well known for our uniquely nurturing, highly effective educational programs. We have a growing emphasis on health disparities research and deliver culturally relevant, culturally competent evidence-based health services. Year after year, we make a significant contribution to the diversity of the nation’s health professions workforce. Access to health care for the underserved and underrepresented continues to be a top priority for the nation. An Institute of Medicine report, “Unequal Treatment,” found that the sources of disparity in health care are complex. They are rooted in historic and contemporary inequities involving many participants at several levels, including health systems, utilization managers, insurers, health care professionals and patients. The key solution, according to the report, is substantially increasing the number of underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities among the nation’s health care workforce. We are proud that Meharry Medical College graduates are part of this solution. More than 80 percent of our medical and dental graduates practice in underserved communities. The education of graduate students in the fields of biomedical research and public health continues to be a high priority at Meharry. There is a growing national shortage of African-American science faculty, especially biomedical scientists, at the college level. Meharry is proud of its Ph.D., MSPH and MHS programs that address this national need to educate the next generation of scientists and health care professionals. The Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College is strategically housed here to provide leadership in health policy education,
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