2015 HEALTH SCIENCES PROGRAM
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Patricia Coleman-Burns, Ph.D.
Lisa Connally
Cherie Dotson, Ph.D.
Todd Ester, D.D.S.
Larry Gant, Ph.D.
Carmen Green, M.D.
Antoinette Hopper, M.S.
Alanna Hyatt
Anita Johnson
Kenneth May, D.D.S.
Alecia McCall, Ph.D.
Debby Mitchell, D.Min., M.S.W., M.A.
Veretta Nix
Emily Renda, M.P.H.
Paula Ross, Ph.D.
Charmaine Ward
Wendy Williams
Cassandra Willis-Abner, M.H.A.
2015
REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. SYMPOSIUM
25th ANNUAL HEALTH
SCIENCES PROGRAM
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SPONSORS
School of Dentistry
Hospitals and Health Centers (Human Resources & Service Excellence)
Medical School
Michigan Institute for Clinical Health Research
School of Nursing
Office for Health Equity and Inclusion
College of Pharmacy*
School of Public Health
School of Social Work
“There can be
unity where
there is not
uniformity.”
*2015 Committee Lead
- MARTIN LUTHER
KING, JR.
MONDAY 12:00 - 1:30 PM
JANUARY 19
2015
Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH,
MBA, FCCP, FASHP, is Dean and Professor of
the University of Tennessee Health Science
Center College of Pharmacy and Professor of
Surgery in the College of Medicine. She previously
served as Professor and Head of the Department of
Pharmacy Practice and Science at the University of
Arizona College of Pharmacy, with joint appointments
as Professor in the Department of Surgery and the Division
of Health Promotion Sciences.
Dr. Chisholm-Burns is Founder and Director of the Medication
Access Program which increases medication access to transplant
recipients. She has also served in numerous elected leadership
positions in several different professional organizations, has worked
in multiple pharmacy settings, and is a member of the National
Academies of Practice. She serves as a member of government
organizations, such as the Food and Drug Administration. With
more than 275 publications and approximately $10 million in
external funding as principal investigator from organizations
such as the National Institutes of Health and several foundations,
Dr. Chisholm-Burns is a prolific scholar. Her areas of research
focus include transplant medicine, health services, scholarship
of teaching, and health care access, equity, and disparities.
Dr. Chisholm-Burns has received numerous awards and honors
including the Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator
Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the
Clinical Pharmacy Education Award from the American College of
Clinical Pharmacy, the Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award
from the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the Rufus A.
Lyman Award for most outstanding publication in the American
Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (1996 and 2007), the Nicholas
Andrew Cummings Award from the National Academies of Practice,
the Award of Excellence from the American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists (ASHP), the Pharmacy Practice Research Award (2011
and 2014) and Award for Sustained Contributions to the Literature
from the ASHP Foundation, and the Research Achievement Award
from APhA. Dr. Chisholm-Burns is also a Fulbright Scholar.
REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. SYMPOSIUM
25th ANNUAL HEALTH SCIENCES PROGRAM
WELCOME
Cherie R. Dotson, Ph.D.
Student Affairs Program Manager for
Student Recruitment and Outreach
U-M College of Pharmacy
SINGING OF LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING
ANNOUNCEMENT OF STUDENT PROJECT
COMPETITION WINNERS
INTRODUCTION OF KEYNOTE SPEAKER
James Dalton, Ph.D.
Dean, U-M College of Pharmacy
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH, MBA, FCCP, FASHP
Dean, University of Tennessee Health
Science Center College of Pharmacy and
Professor of Surgery in the College of Medicine
RECEPTION
Light hors d’oeuvres in Lobby
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF
COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMMING
REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
HEALTH SCIENCES PROGRAM HISTORICAL TIMELINE
2015
Dr. Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH, MBA, FCCP, FASHP,
“Unity not Uniformity: A Spotlight on Health Disparities”
January 19, 2015, at 12:00 p.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “Unity: Not Uniformity”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer – Marc Lamont Hill)
2014 Dr. Phyllis Meadows, PhD, MSN, RN, “Healing the Divide: Bridges
to community health”
January 20, 2014, at 11:45 a.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “Power * Justice * Love – Heal the Divide”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer - Harry Belafonte)
2013
Dr. Carmen Green, MD, “Unequal Burdens and Unparalleled Opportunities:
Achieving the Dream for Health and Pain Care Equity”
January 21, 2013, at 11:45 a.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “50 Years Later: (R)Evolution of the Dream”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer – Morris Dees)
2012
Dr. Brian D. Smedley, PhD, “Building Stronger Communities for Better Health:
The Geography of Equity and Human Rights”
Monday, January 16, 2012, at 11:45 a.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme - “Building on the Past to a New Generation of Activism”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer – Michelle Norris)
2011
Dr. Sherman James, PhD, “Healing the Wounds: The Health Disparities Legacy
of the 1960s Civil Rights Era”
January 17, 2011, at 11:45 a.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “We the People… Realizing the Dream?”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer – Shirley Sherrod)
2010 D
r. Lisa A. Newman, MD, “Breast Cancer Awareness, Treatment, and Transformative
Health: A Catalyst for Change”
January 18, 2010, at 11:45 a.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme - “I am, was and always will be a catalyst for change.”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer – Gwen Ifill)
2009
Dr. Joanne Dawley, DDS, “A Dreamer, But Not the Only One”
January 19, 2009, at 11:45 a.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “A Dreamer, But Not the Only One”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer – Julian Bond)
2008
Dr. Spero M. Manson, PhD, “Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere”
January 21, 2008, at 11:45 a.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “Injustice Anywhere is a Threat to Justice Everywhere”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer – Louis Gossett, Jr.)
2007
Mr. Tony Brown, MA
January 16, 2007, at 11:45 a.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “Building the Beloved Community”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer - Kweisi Mfume)
2006
Dr. Na’im Akbar, PhD, “Breaking the Silence on Black Health and Life”
January 16, 2006, at 11:45 a.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “A Time to Break Silence”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer - Anna Deavere Smith)
2005 D
r. Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, PhD, “Advancing Justice in Health Care:
An Historical Perspective on Eliminating Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Health Care”
January 17, 2005, at 11:45 a.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “But We Have Not Learned the Simple Art of Living Together”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer - Henry G. Cisneros)
2004 Dr. Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, “Health Disparities: Still Separate? Still Unequal?”
January 19, 2004, at 11:45 a.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme - “Still Separate? Still Unequal? Brown Versus Board of Education, 50 Years
Later” (Memorial Keynote Lecturer - Lani Guinier)
2003
Dr. Alvin F. Poussiant, MD, “Be the Change You Wish to See in the World”
January 20, 2003, at 12:00 p.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “We Must be the Change We Wish to See in the World”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer – Grace Lee Boggs)
2002
Drs. Sampson Davis, MD; Remeck Hunt, MD and George Jenkins, MD,
“The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream”
January 21, 2002, at 12:00 p.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “Honoring, Challenging and Living”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer - Dr. Benjamin Carson)
2001 D
r. Reuben Warren, DDS, MPH, DrPH, “Commitment and Renewal:
Improving Health Care for All”
January 15, 2001, at 12:00 p.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “Commitment and Renewal”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer – Edward James Olmos)
2000
Dr. Elizabeth Allen, “A Health Agenda for a Multicultural Society”
January 17, 2000, at 12:00 p.m. Maternal and Child Health Center
Campus Theme – MLK 2K: Shattering Barriers & Transcending Borders
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer – Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)
1999
Dr. Noreen Clark, PhD
January 18, 1999, at 12:00 p.m. in the Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center
Campus Theme – “On the Verge of a New Millennium…STAND!”
(Memorial Keynote Lecturer – Nikki Giovanni)