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Congratulations MAO Graduating Class of 2007! MAO residents and fellows from the MGH Training Programs recently were honored at the traditional graduation ceremony in the Museum of African American History (MAAH), in Beacon Hill, for completing their residency and fellowship training programs.
Before the graduation ceremony, Alex Goldfield, Director of Operations of the Museum, gave an emotive précis of the MAAH that evoked feelings of closeness and reflection among the presents, as they reminisced the efforts and hard work of the minority communities along the years. The Graduation Ceremony began with welcoming remarks from Elena Olson, MAO Executive Director, who served as mistress of ceremonies for the event, followed by the roll of graduates read by Dr. Ronald Dixon, Manager of trainee Affairs. All the graduates and their spouses were asked to come up to the rostrum to receive a graduation present as a token of appreciation and recognition for their success. The ceremony concluded with special invite to all graduates to the stage to be honored with a toast and the best wishes of all the MAO community. Please "click here" to see the 2007 Roll of Graduates.
Dr. Emery N. Brown: Making History at MGH
On Saturday, May 5, the Department of Anaesthesia celebrated Dr. Brown's appointment in a MGH Professorship black tie reception; Dr. Brown was honored and congratulated on his research, academic and clinical accomplishments by Dr. Warren M. Zapol, Chief of Service of Anaesthesia, and other hospital leadership. The Multicultural Affairs Office congratulates Dr. Brown on his success, and thanks him for being a role model and paving the way for underrepresented minorities in medicine and science.
Alvin Poussaint lecturer Cato D. Laurencin, MD visits MGH
Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., PhD, was the invited speaker of this year's Alvin F. Poussaint, MD Visiting Lectureship, an annual lecture designed to bring underrepresented minority HMS alumni back to Harvard. Dr. Laurencin earned his B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and continued clinical training at the Harvard University Orthopaedic Surgery Program. He most recently received the William Grimes Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Leadership in Technology Award from the New Millennium Foundation. Also, Dr. Laurencin has been elected as a member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences for his professional achievement and commitment to service (more). On May 9, previous his presentation "Engineering Musculosketal Tissues" at HMS, Dr. Laurencin joined MGH faculty and trainees in a luncheon hosted in his honor by the Orthopaedics Department, where he shared personal experiences with the MGH community (see photos).
The Department of Surgery, MAO and the MGH community are very proud of the success that Nathaniel has achieved, as of his flagrant abilities to thrive in academics.
Creating MAO Advisory Board MAO will be working closely with a new Advisory Board designed to provide advice on MAO's future direction and help implement strategies for hospital-wide physician workforce diversity issues. Comprised of hospital, MGPO, and HMS opinion leaders, the board is co-chaired by Drs. Slavin and Win Williams. Check out the January 12, 2007 Hotline, which will be featuring this new advisory board. To see the article online, "click here".
Expanding Faculty Development
MAO has awarded 9 junior faculty development awards over the past 4 years and will be funding at least 2 more awards in March 2007. We are delighted to report that all 9 award recipients are advancing in their careers as physician-scientists and clinician-teachers, and are actively publishing in peer review journals, receiving independent funding, and/or impacting medical education and the local and international community.
We have also expanded our resident retention meetings with Peter Slavin
and department leadership this year to include discussions of URM fellows
and faculty, with the hope of improving the development and promotion
of URM faculty at MGH. Our recent meetings with department leaders have
taught us that you (faculty) should: (1) try to meet with your department/division
chief regularly, and (2) seek advice from Mary
Clark, PhD, in the Center for Faculty Development, to help you package
your CV and develop a career plan for promotion. To make an appointment
with Dr. Clark, call ext. 4-5229. The MAO staff
is also happy to meet with those of you who are seeking career advice
and feedback, so please don't hesitate to contact us!
MAO publications
In closing, we feel strongly at MAO that the issue of race and ethnicity in healthcare continues to be a challenge, and that a robust and diverse healthcare physician workforce is crucial to the success of the hospital's mission of excellence in patient care, education and research. A recent article about the "Impact of Race on the Professional Lives of Physicians of African Descent" and the accompanying editorial by MAO physician staff members Joseph Betancourt and Andrea Reid were published in Annals of Internal Medicine the first week of January. We encourage all of you to read these important publications, which underscore the importance of our work in the Multicultural Affairs Office with all departments at MGH. A full text of both articles may be found in our website at: http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/mao/publications.html Last updated: May 14, 2007
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Emery
N. Brown, MD, PhD, of the Department of Anaesthesia and Critical
Care, has been appointed as the first Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Anaesthesia. This prestigious appointment makes Dr.
Brown the first African American at MGH to become a chaired professor
in the 196-year history of MGH. Dr. Brown is recognized for his outstanding
contributions in the Department of Anaesthesia, such as his cross-disciplinary
research in the statistics of neuronal spike trains, medical neuroimaging
and circadian rhythms; excellence as an ambassador between the fields
of statistics and medical research; and service to the profession. 
Nathaniel
Evans, MD, senior resident in the MGH Department of Surgery and
2007 graduate, was selected to participate in the second annual 
