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Breaking Ground: Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication

Autor David Chanoff, Louis W. Sullivan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2015

In "Breaking Ground," Louis W. Sullivan, M.D. recounts his extraordinary life including his childhood in Jim Crow south Georgia and continuing through his trailblazing endeavors training to become a physician in an almost entirely white environment in the Northeast. He was the founding dean and president of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, and served as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in President George H. W. Bush s administration. Throughout his extraordinary life Sullivan has passionately championed improved access to health care for all Americans and greater diversity among the nation s health professionals.

Sullivan s life from Morehouse to the White House and his ongoing work with medical students in South Africa is the embodiment of the hopes and progress that the civil rights movement fought to achieve. His story should inspire future generations of all backgrounds to aspire to great things."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780820349381
ISBN-10: 0820349380
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 226 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Georgia Press
Seria Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication


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I have always known that Lou Sullivan was an outstanding head of HHS and a valued member of my White House team. I am convinced we are a healthier nation still today because of some of the issues Lou brought to the table with so much passion and determination; I paid attention. But I don t think I really appreciated the man Louis Sullivan is until I read Breaking Ground. He is a true American hero, and Barbara and I are proud we have played a small part in his life s journey.

President George H. W. Bush

"Lou Sullivan has always believed that addressing the health requirements of the country s neediest its minorities and poor will bring the greatest benefit to society as a whole. That was the theme of his tenure as secretary, and that has been the impact of the medical school he founded. In this book he writes with clarity, passion, and humor about the life he has led and the issues that dominate our current health care debates."

from the foreword by Ambassador Andrew Young

"Lou Sullivan s life story offers a compelling chronicle of how vision and perseverance can overcome daunting obstacles. Sullivan is a genuine American hero, and his life stands as a testament to how devotion to the service of others can breech any barrier and ascend any height."

Jordan J. Cohen, MD, MACP, President Emeritus, Association of American Medical Colleges

"In this dramatic and revealing memoir that takes us from the segregated backwoods of Georgia to the founding of the nation's premier African American medical school and the cabinet of President George H. W. Bush, Lou Sullivan shows how commitment, courage, a sense of humor, and a passion for health promotion and disease prevention can make life better for all Americans."

Joseph A. Califano Jr., top White House assistant for domestic affairs under President Lyndon Johnson and secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the Carter administration

Louis Sullivan proved that when leadership is rooted in compassion and exercised with courage, it can be a powerful source of change. This book provides insight into his personal roots, his professional drive, and his historic decisions.

Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication

The University of Georgia Press

Athens, Georgia 30602

www.ugapress.org

ISBN 978-0-8203-4663-2"


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