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"This Meharrian Life" highlights members of the Meharry Medical College family through personal interviews about their lives, motivations and the impact of the institution. Founded in 1876, Meharry Medical College is the nation's largest private, independent historically black academic health sciences center dedicated to educating minority and other health professionals. The college is particularly well known for its uniquely nurturing, highly effective educational programs; emerging preemin ...
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Step inside the minds of healthcare leaders across the country with a new series aimed at spreading factual, informative and inspiring knowledge through conversations with a list of influential and educated health and policy experts in various fields. Hosted by James E.K. Hildreth, PhD, MD, infectious disease expert and researcher and CEO and president of one of the country’s four HBCU medical institutions, Meharry Medical College, our first season focuses on relevant and interesting topics ...
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Dr. Carisa Hines is the founder of Freeman Moore Medical Consultants, a full spectrum disability consultation practice. She is a native of Norfolk, Virginia, and is a proud graduate of Booker T Washington HS. Dr. Hines completed her undergraduate degree in Biological Chemistry at the University if Virginia. She graduated from Meharry Medical College, and subsequently completed her residency at Atlanta Medical Center in Internal Medicine. Since completing residency, she has worked in Emergenc ...
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Jeannette South-Paul, M.D., DHL(Hon), FAAFP, executive vice president and Provost of Meharry Medical College, joins James E.K. Hildreth, PhD, MD, to discuss the longstanding relationship between the Department of Veterans Affairs and medical schools across the country. Together they delve into the impact this collaboration has on medical students, …
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Dr. Atul Grover, executive director of the AAMC Research and Action Institute, outlines his concerns regarding health disparities created by recent policy changes and the effects regulations have on minority populations. As a nationally recognized expert in health policy, Dr. Grover describes his goal of contributing to growth in academic medicine …
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CEO of the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council, Bobby Watts, joins Dr. Hildreth to discuss the vitality of health equity in the face of economic disparity, and how understanding the homelessness crisis as a substantial human rights issue promotes empathy and strengthens the country as a whole. They’ll also provide insights into effective s…
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A legendary transplant surgeon, Clive Callender, MD, FACS, founder and president of The National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP) and professor of surgery at the Howard University College of Medicine. Dr. Callender joins Dr. Hildreth to reflect on how his difficult upbringing inspired his later success as a medical profes…
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Dr. Cherae Farmer-Dixon serves as Dean of Meharry’s superior School of Dentistry which produces 40 percent of the nation’s currently practicing Black dentists. Dean Farmer-Dixon joins Dr. Hildreth for an insightful conversation on the importance of oral health to one’s overall wellbeing and how a single visit to a dentist could potentially save you…
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Guest host Marcus Whitney, founder of Jumpstart Nova, the first venture fund in America focused on Black-led startups, interviews Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, PhD, MD, to hear his personal journey of struggle and triumph as a young Black man in health care, how his childhood impacted his path through elite higher education and why he continues to encou…
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Join host Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, PhD, MD, as we step inside the minds of healthcare leaders across the country with a new series aimed at spreading factual, informative and inspiring knowledge through conversations with a list of influential and educated health and policy experts in various fields. Dr. Hildreth is an infectious disease expert and…
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