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| Issue 9: March 2004 |
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Joycelyn Elders speaking on campus
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Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders will address issues in healthcare for minority populations at 7:45 p.m. March 25 in Carter Hall.
Presented by the University Core Curriculum's Speakers Series in conjunction with USI's celebration of Women's History Month, Elders' program is free and open to the public.
The first African American surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service, Elders' progressive stand on the issues frequently stirred controversy in the 1990s. Her open discussion of sexuality at World AIDS Day 1994 led to her forced resignation 15 months after confirmation.
Now a distinguished professor of public health at University of Arkansas, she is the author of Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America (William Morrow, 1996).
A graduate of University of Arkansas Medical School, she also holds a master's in biochemistry and an undergraduate degree from Philander-Smith College in Little Rock, Ark.
Before Elder's appointment as surgeon general, she served in the U.S. Army, as a professor of pediatrics at UAMS, as director of the Arkansas Department of Health, and as president of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers.
Named the Arkansas Democrat's Woman of the Year, her honors also include the National Governor's Association Distinguished Service Award, the American Medical Association's Dr. Nathan Davis Award, and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women's Candace Award.
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