Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 1985-1989, Doctor of Dental Surgery degree awarded June 1989.
College:

II. Education

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD, 1980-1984, Bachelor of Arts degree awarded June 1984 with a major in Biology and a minor in Psychology.

High School:

Damascus High School, Damascus, MD, 1976-1980.

III. Experience in Higher Education

• Assistant Professor, Department of Dental Public Health, the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, University of Maryland Dental School, 2012 – present.
• Volunteer Instructor, Dean’s Faculty, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, University of Maryland Dental School, 2005 – 2011.
• Volunteer Clinical Instructor, Department of Oral Health Care Delivery, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, University of Maryland Dental School, 1997-2004.
• Volunteer Clinical Faculty, Advanced General Dentistry Residency Program, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, University of Maryland Dental School, 1994-1995.

IV. Experience Other Than in Higher Education

• Curator, The Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry, 2002 – present.
• Assistant Curator, The Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry, 2000 – 2002.
• Registrar/Collections Manager, The Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry, 1997 – 2000.
• Internship, The Maryland Historical Society, 1997.
• Private Dental Practice, 1989 – 1997.

V. Professional Activities

• Member, American Academy of the History of Dentistry (Archivist, 2002 – 2005)
• Member, American Association of Museums
• Member, American Dental Association

VI. Honors

• Fellow, American College of Dentists, 2011 – present.
• W. J. Geis Fellowship in Dental History, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.

His studio initiatives combine academic learning and life skill development with an audacious aspiration to create great art within an unexpected context. Since 2005 he has worked with over 30 public schools on art integration and public art projects. He has worked on numerous collaborations with the museum education departments at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts to create artworks with youth within the museum galleries and public spaces. He holds a certificate in sculpture from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in and a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a member of the historic art collective Tim Rollins and K.O.S. for over ten years.

He also heads the academies’ African American History Program (AAHP) that seeks to raise the awareness of contributions made by African Americans to areas of science, medicine and engineering (
www.africanamericanhistoryprogram.org).  He was the creator and organizer of the international on-line symposium on Visual Culture and Bioscience (
www.visualcultureandbioscience.org) and co-editor of the published transcripts (distributed by D.A.P., March 2009).  The second in this series of on-line symposia will be on Visual Culture and Evolution held from April 5 through April 14, 2010 (
www.VCandE.org).
Talasek holds an MFA in studio arts from the University of Delaware, an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester, and BS in Photography from East Texas State University.  He has taught photography at the University of Delaware as well Essex and Howard Community Colleges and is currently on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in the Museum Studies Masters Program.
Talasek has curated several exhibitions at the National Academy of Sciences including Visionary Anatomies (toured through the Smithsonian Institution, 2004 – 2006), Absorption + Transmission: work by Mike and Doug Starn, The Tao of Physics: Photographs by Arthur Tress, Cycloids: Paintings by Michael Schultheis.  At the University of Delaware, he organized and curated Observations in an Occupied Wilderness: Photographs by Terry Falke and LightBox: the Visual AIDS Archive Project.He is the art advisor for Issues in Science and Technology Magazine published by the University of Texas at Dallas and The National Academies.  He is a member of: the College Art Association; Society of Photographic Educators; the Society for Literature, Science and Art; and the American Association of Museums.

Sullivan is also a researcher, academic leader, exemplary public steward and role model for enhancing health literacy and advancing healthy behaviors. He served as chair of the President’s Commission on Historically Black Colleges and Universities from 2002-2009, and was co-chair of the President’s Commission on HIV and AIDS from 2001-2006.With the exception of his tenure as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 1989 to 1993, Dr. Sullivan was president of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) for more than two decades. On July 1, 2002, he retired and was appointed president emeritus.Dr. Sullivan became the founding dean and director of the Medical Education Program at Morehouse College in 1975. The program became The School of Medicine at Morehouse College in 1978, admitting its first 24 students to a two-year program in the basic medical sciences. In 1981, the school received provisional accreditation of its four year curriculum leading to the M.D. degree, became independent from Morehouse College and was re-named Morehouse School of Medicine, with Dr. Sullivan as dean and president. MSM was fully accredited as a four-year medical school in April 1985 and awarded its first 16 M.D. degrees in May of that year. Its graduates include U.S. Surgeon General, Regina Benjamin and Meharry Medical College, President Wayne Riley. With Marybeth Gasman, Dr. Sullivan is the co-author of “The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation’s Newest African American Medical School”, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 2012.Dr. Sullivan left MSM in 1989 to accept an appointment by President George H.W. Bush to serve as secretary of HHS. In this cabinet position, Dr. Sullivan managed the federal agency responsible for the major health, welfare, food and drug safety, medical research and income security programs serving the American people.

His efforts to improve the health and health behavior of Americans included (1) leading the effort to increase the NIH budget from $8.0 billion in 1989 to $13.1 billion in 1993. (2) the introduction of a new and improved FDA food label; (3) the release of Healthy People 2000, a guide for improved health promotion/disease prevention activities; (4) educated the public about the health dangers from tobacco use; (5) led the successful efforts to prevent the introduction of “Uptown,” a non-filtered, mentholated cigarette; (6) inaugurated a $100 million minority male health and injury prevention initiative; and (7) implemented greater gender and ethnic diversity in senior positions of HHS, including the appointment of the first female director of the National Institutes of Health, the first female (and first Hispanic) Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, the first African American Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, and the first African-American Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration. In January 1993, he returned to MSM and resumed the office of president.

In March 2008, Dr. Sullivan was appointed to the new Grady Hospital Corporation Board of Trustees. In June, 2008, Dr. Sullivan accepted appointment to an Institute of Medicine Committee, “Improving the Organization of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to Advance the Health of Our Population.”

A native of Atlanta, Dr. Sullivan graduated magna cum laude from Morehouse College in 1954, and earned his medical degree, cum laude, from Boston University School of Medicine in 1958. His postgraduate training included internship and residency in internal medicine at New York Hospital – Cornell Medical Center (1958-60), a clinical fellowship in pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital (1960-61), and a research fellowship in hematology at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory of Harvard Medical School, Boston City Hospital (1961-63). He is certified in internal medicine and hematology, holds a mastership from the American College of Physicians and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha academic honor societies.

Dr. Sullivan was instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1963-64, and assistant professor of medicine at Seton Hall College of Medicine from 1964-66. In 1966, he became co-director of hematology at Boston University Medical Center and, a year later, founded the Boston University Hematology Service at Boston City Hospital. Dr. Sullivan remained at Boston University until 1975, holding positions as assistant professor of medicine, associate professor of medicine, and professor of medicine.

Dr. Sullivan is the founding president of the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS). He is a former member of the Joint Committee on Health Policy of the Association of American Universities and the National Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities.

In1985, Dr. Sullivan was one of the founders of Medical Education for South African Blacks (MESAB).
From 1994-2007, he served as chairman of the organization, which raised scholarship funds in the United States and South Africa for more than 10,000 black health professions students, who are now physicians, nurses, dentists and other health professionals in South Africa.

Dr. and Mrs. E. Ginger Sullivan are sponsors of The Sullivan 5K Run/Walk Road Race for Health & Fitness on Martha’s Vineyard, Ma. Now in its 24st year, the popular event has raised almost $300,000 to benefit Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Firm believers in daily exercise, the Sullivan’s have walked in more than 50 countries throughout their travels. In recent years, they have added walks in Senegal, Nigeria, Gabon, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Egypt, Morocco, Hungary, and Algeria.

Dr. Sullivan is the recipient of more than 60 honorary degrees, including an honorary doctor of medicine degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Dr. Sullivan currently serves on the following corporate boards: Henry Schein, United Therapeutics, Emergent Biosolutions, and BioSante Pharmaceuticals. He is retired from the boards of General Motors, 3M, Bristol Myers Squibb, CIGNA, Household International (now HBSC), and Equifax.
 

He is married to E. Ginger Sullivan, an attorney, and they have three grown children: Paul, a radiologist; Shanta, an actress; and Halsted, a Harvard Law Graduate and writer/producer for the television comedy, “The Office”. They have two grandchildren, Paul Jr. and Brent Sullivan.

Nosek investigates the gap between values and practices – such as when behavior is influenced by factors other than one’s intentions and goals. Research applications of this interest are implicit bias, diversity and inclusion, automaticity, social judgment and decision-making, attitudes, beliefs, ideology, morality, identity, memory, and barriers to innovation. Through lectures, training, and consulting, Nosek and Project Implicit apply scientific research to improve the alignment between personal and organizational values and practices. He also co-founded the Open Science Framework (
http://openscienceframework.org/) to develop infrastructure and create processes that maximize the consistency between scientific values and scientific practices

She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in October 2006.

Hine received her B.A. degree from Roosevelt University (1968) in Chicago, and earned a Ph.D. degree from Kent State University (1975) at Kent, Ohio. Between 1974 and 1986, Professor Hine served Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana in various administrative capacities, including Vice Provost. She began her teaching career in 1972 as coordinator of Black studies at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg. Prior to joining Northwestern University, Hine was John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University (1987-2004). In Spring 1997, Hine served as the Avalon Visiting Distinguished Professor in American History at Northwestern University. At Roosevelt University in fall 1996 she was Harold Washington Visiting Professor.

Hine has been influential in shaping the field of African American women’s history and the study of the black professional class. She is the author and/or co-editor of over twenty books. She co- authored with William C. Hine and Stanley Harrold, The African American Odyssey (Prentice Hall, 2007). She is the author of Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (2nd ed. 2003), Speak Truth to Power: Black Professional Class in United States History (1996), and HineSight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History (1994). She co- edited with Elsa Barkley Brown and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1993). Hine is editor of Black Women in America, 3 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2005). In 1990, her book Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950 was named Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights, received the Lavinia L. Dock Book Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing, and was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians.

Hine has received many honors including grant support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Ford Foundation. She has been a fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute of African and African American Research at Harvard University (2011-2012), at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University (2003-2004), at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2000-2001) and at the National Humanities Center (1986-1987). She received several honorary doctorates from institutions including the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1998) and Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois (2010).

Her areas of research include the culture of medicine on health disparities, and the historial and cultural meaning of Southern Black midwives’ narratives. In the STEM disciplines, promotion and tenure policy review, institutional planning for faculty growth and programs to support faculty research and teaching. She was a Program Officer in higher education at the Ford Foundation .from 2001-2003. Ms. Fraser earned degrees from Bryn Mawr College and The Johns Hopkins University, where she completed her Doctorate in Anthropology. She is Associate Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies at the University of Virginia.She has written in the areas of African American culture, community, and identity in the diaspora; race, gender and science; comparative body politics; genetics, ethics, and minority populations; and ethnohistory. She is the author of
African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. Gertrude Fraser’s career has effectively combined scholarship on culture, medicine and African American communities, with action on behalf of strengthening opportunities for women, African Americans and other minorities in higher education. Her current research in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Virginia seeks to improve African American men’s knowledge about prostate cancer and their screening and treatment options. She is PI of a recently awarded NSF-ADVANCE IT five year grant for $3.16M in support of institutional initiatives to advance women faculty in STEM-SBE.

Currently serving on the Executive Council of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc., she is also a member of their Chicago Branch for the Project on the History of Black Writing (University of Kansas), the online
Journal of Pan African Studies, the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, and the Alumni Council of the Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She served as Bibliography Chair for the Toni Morrison Society and was a trustee of Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History, Inc., she has also worked on various projects exploring and documenting Black life and culture. Kathleen is a member of the American Library Association (ALA), the Black Caucus of ALA (BCALA), and the Chicago Chapter of BCALA. Kathleen is involved in library leadership, diversity, recruitment, and research activities.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Cassandra R. Allen, has been the Outreach Librarian in the Outreach and Special Populations Branch, Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) since September 2000. Ms. Allen’s responsibilities include the planning and implementation of outreach programs and training to minority and underserved populations. Ms. Allen has developed projects with the National Medical Association, the Student National Medical Association, the National Black Nurses Association, the ethnic caucuses of the American Library Association, the Medical Library Association’s African American Medical Librarians Alliance, the HBCU Faculty Development Network, Kappa Kares and a community-based grassroots organization called Jesus People Against Pollution (JPAP).

Before coming to SIS, Ms. Allen was the Head of the Collection Access Section (CAS) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Ms. Allen was responsible for formulating policy related to access to the General Collection of the NLM. She administered an international interlibrary loan operation, and oversaw the provision of General Collection materials to the Main Reading Room of the NLM. She was the head of CAS from 1986 to 2000. Before coming to NLM, Ms. Allen was the Head of the Circulation Section in the Loan Division at the Library of Congress from 1984 to 1986.
Ms. Allen was a member of the NLM Diversity Council for four years, from 1996 – 2000, and served as the founding chair of the Council for three years, from 1996 – 1999. For her work on the Council, she received the NLM Director’s Honor Award and the NIH Champion of Diversity Award. The National Medical Association has also recognized Ms. Allen for outstanding service and support.
Ms. Allen received her Masters in Library Science from the University of Maryland and a Bachelors of Arts from the University of Virginia.

As a scholar, Reynolds has pioneered creation of CHAAMP, an online resource on the history of African Americans in the medical professions. She completed her residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital before moving to the University of Pennsylvania for fellowship training as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. For more than 30 years as a physician-historian, Dr. Reynolds has been studying efforts to eliminate discrimination and health disparities, and to racially integrate hospitals and health professions training schools throughout the country.In July 2007, Dr. Reynolds joined the faculty at the University of Virginia as Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care. She is focusing her research on the history of African Americans in the health professions while contributing to the University community through her role as Associate Director of the Center for Health Disparities and by giving lectures, teaching students and residents, and providing clinical care.While member of the Board of Directors of Physicians for Human Rights from 1987-2002, the organization was awarded the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize as founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Additionally, Dr. Reynolds has been engaged as a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) and the American College of Physicians (ACP) in the effort to reform health care in the US, to promote diversity and physician workforce reform, and to enhance the quality of healthcare for all Americans. She was recipient of ACP’s 2010 national advocacy award and SGIM’s 2011 David Calkins Health Policy Award for her work on health reform.Her major books and articles focus on the history of race discrimination in healthcare and the racial integration of hospitals, reform of medical education and healthcare through a renewed commitment to medical professionalism, and the history and impact of federal programs designed to expand generalist physician and dental training in the United States. She has lectured both in the US and abroad on various topics based on her historical research and leadership roles in promoting medical professionalism and global human rights.

Since 2003, Dr. Reynolds has been working on a comprehensive guide to resources on the history of African Americans in the health professions, first as a senior scholar at the National Library of Medicine from 2003-2004, and then with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It is this work that she will share as she plans for national dissemination of this project in collaboration with professional organizations.

Bertley oversees both research-based projects as well as program development and implementation including: Gender & Family Learning; K-12 Professional Development; Learning Technologies; Community Outreach, Youth Programs and The Franklin Institute’s magnet high school, Science Leadership Academy. Additionally, he directs the prestigious Franklin Awards Program and the long-running Journal of The Franklin Institute. Dr. Bertley also founded and directs the lauded Color of Science™ program which highlights the fantastic contributions of persons of color to modern day science and engineering.Frederic has a strong record in academia; he holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physiology and a Ph.D. in Immunology, both from McGill University. But even more relevant to his position here at The Franklin is his formidable background in applied science and science education. After graduating from McGill, he turned his attention to the problem of the lack of health care and basic vaccines in developing nations. He joined a Harvard Medical School HIV Vaccine Research Group, and managed multinational teams in Haiti and Sudan. In addition, Dr. Bertley has lectured or taught classes in several STEM disciplines at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels.Throughout his career, Dr. Bertley spent over fifteen years developing science curricula for students from primary schools to graduate schools, and over thirteen years developing science education resources for non-profit organizations and for-profit corporations. Currently, he is a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), serves on the Governor’s Advisory Board for Life Sciences Initiatives in Massachusetts and is the Goodwill Ambassador to Senegal for Science Education and Innovation. Dr. Bertley has received numerous honors including the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Service Award, Merck Scholarship and The President’s Award (QBMA) amongst others.