The Campaign for Morehouse College: The Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Endowment for The Office of Healthc

T H E O F F I C E O F H E A LT H C A R E P R O F E S S I O N S

THE LOUIS W. SULLIVAN, M.D., ENDOWMENT

FOR THE OFFICE OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONS

Investing in the development of next-level leaders who will provide high-quality health care with a heart for underserved and marginalized communities

T H E LO U I S W. S U L L I VA N , M . D., E N D O W M E N T FO R T H E O F F I C E O F H E A LT H CA R E P R O F E S S I O N S The health care challenges that minorities face in the United States today are as daunting as they were more than 50 years ago. The disparity in access to preventive care for people of color and the poor has exacerbated hospitalization rates and deaths due to chronic illness and injury. And there is also a lack of diversity in medicine: Fewer than 3% of the nation’s physicians are Black men. As the nation’s only historically Black college focused on educating and developing men, Morehouse has a moral imperative to address these issues.

Since 1974, the Morehouse College Office of Health Professions —now the Office of Healthcare Professions— has excelled at producing change agents who are committed to reimagining health care to better serve marginalized communities.

Morehouse College’s renowned health care professions program annually attracts high-caliber students who learn under the expectation of excellence and share the core belief that health care is a basic human right. They know that their very presence as Black men in medicine could greatly impact patient care—and survival. They explore their interests in medicine under the guidance of distinguished professors who set high expectations for academic success and foster their partnership with alumni practitioners of medicine who work on the frontlines of emergency rooms, lead private practices, use their talents to analyze medical trends among communities of color, and work to invent new treatments for disease.

Students in the program receive clinical exposure, professional development, standardized test preparation, and access to prestigious internship and research opportunities, which helps them become

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more competitive for graduate school admittance. In fact, the specialized academic program has increased the number of Morehouse undergraduates who apply to, and enter, health professional schools. Over the last five years, 80 exceptional Morehouse Men have matriculated to medical school. Morehouse has produced more than 2,000 doctors overall.

Program graduates also serve their communities as researchers, pharmacists, dentists, and policymakers contributing to health care conversations locally, nationally, and internationally. Two pioneers in the field achieved U.S. Presidential appointments—the Honorable Louis W. Sullivan, M.D. ’54, Founding Dean and President Emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine, is a former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the esteemed David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., Founding Director and Senior Advisor of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine, was the 16th U.S. Surgeon General. The shadows of these trailblazing servant leaders still inspire rising Men of Morehouse to follow in their footsteps.

To ensure that Morehouse has the resources necessary to meet the demands of preparing students for 21st-century health careers, Morehouse College is launching The Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Endowment for the Office of Healthcare Professions. The fund will support scholarships and strategic program advances that will enable Morehouse to continue its rich legacy of producing men of distinction who excel, lead, and serve in the health care industry at a high level.

The fund honors the work and spirit of Dr. Sullivan, who has boldly dedicated his professional life to advocating nationally for diversity throughout the ranks of health professional schools and the health

care industry. In his role as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1989-1993, Sullivan steered billions of dollars in resources to programs that helped to improve access to preventive health care in underserved, marginalized communities and supported research that studied the impact of health disparities on people of color. As chairman of the Washington, D.C.-based Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions, Sullivan continues to bring national attention to issues of public health and the growing need for Black professionals in the industry.

His national nonprofit is working in partnership with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to offer programmatic support.

Sullivan has also served as chair of the President Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities from 2002-2009 and was President of Morehouse School of Medicine for 20 years, retiring on July 1, 2002.

With your investment in The Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Endowment at Morehouse College, the Office of Healthcare Professions can elevate its targeted outreach to attract promising STEM students of color globally and enhance its world-class curriculum by: F ostering Innovation: Provide more cutting-edge programming, data collection, technology, and tracking of program participants and graduates.

C oaching Leaders: Provide intensive academic advisement to scholars interested in medical

T H E LO U I S W. S U L L I VA N , M . D., E N D O W M E N T FO R T H E O F F I C E O F H E A LT H CA R E P R O F E S S I O N S careers, and support all aspects of their journey to health professional schools, from the application process to test preparation.

E ncouraging Exploration: Expand curricular and co-curricular engagements to expose more students to medical careers, internships, and research opportunities.

O ffering Support: Assist in identifying and acquiring financial resources to support prehealth professions scholarships and related programming at Morehouse College.

B uilding Community: Create a central hub for student and faculty engagement that provides research and study spaces for individuals and groups, and offers extracurricular programming such as leadership development talks, seminars on ethical integrity, networking and mentorship opportunities, and field trips.

Strategic Imperatives The Office of Healthcare Professions aims to steadily increase the number of Black men who enter health professional schools after graduating from Morehouse. The following are some of the key initiatives that are being planned to achieve this objective: I ncrease access to health professional schools through Memoranda of Understanding agreements (MOUs) with the following institutions: Meharry Medical College, University of North Carolina’s Adams School of Dentistry, Yale School of Medicine, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Morehouse currently has active MOUs with Morehouse School of Medicine’s Early

Commitment Program (ECP) and Undergraduate Health Sciences Academy (UHSA); Duke University School of Medicine; The University of Michigan School of Dentistry; the Boston University School of Medicine’s Early Medical Selection Program; Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; and University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry.

R ecruit more students into the Thomas J. Blocker Pre-Freshman Summer Science Program, growing the class to 40 participants annually. The program prepares high school students for the rigors of Morehouse’s science curriculum and offers college credits for courses that help to improve four-year graduation rates.

E ndow professorships to give students the opportunity to collaborate with leading scholars; and recruit and retain the highest caliber of faculty.

E xpand collaborations with alumni and other health professionals, health equity social justice innovators, and influential professional organizations.

I ncrease opportunities for academic study and professional development for students, both domestically and internationally.

Invest in Success Morehouse College is the top producer of Black men who go on to earn doctorates in STEM, education, and the humanities, according to the National Science Foundation. With your investment in The Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., Endowment, Morehouse will have the resources necessary to enhance the academic progams and technology of the Office of Healthcare Professions, increase staffing and scholarship funding, and grow its pipeline of distinguished graduates committed to leadership and service in the health care industry.

CAMPAIGN PRIORITIES Presidential Endowed Scholarships

$25,000,000

Distinguished Faculty Positions

$15,000,000

Scholarly Research

$5,000,000

Experiential Learning Programmatic Endowment

$5,000,000

TOTAL

$50,000,000

MAKING MEN OF CONSEQUENCE

The Office of Healthcare Professions offers a world-class pre-health (pre-medical, pre-dental, and pre-pharmacy) education, which ignites a sensitivity toward serving disadvantaged communities, a passion for learning, a desire to serve, and an unwavering commitment to improving the health and wellbeing of all patients—regardless of race, creed, gender identity, religious affiliation, income, or ethnicity. The Office also prepares its students to be critical thinkers and ethical leaders who serve abroad as volunteers within the global health community, lending their voices and ideas as they engage in world health dialogues on complex public health issues impacting low-income communities and marginalized groups internationally.

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