During Black History Month, the UConn Health Center honors all of the African American leaders on the faculty and staff whose passion and creativity contribute mightily to the educational, research and clinical successes of our academic medical center.
“Indeed, an integral part of the Health Center’s mission, dating back to its founding, is to open the doors of academic and professional opportunities to people of all racial, ethnic and economic backgrounds,” said Philip Austin, Interim Vice President for Health Affairs. “One of our greatest success stories is the Health Careers Opportunity Program which has reached out to students in the greater Hartford area for more than 25 years through a series of innovative educational and mentoring programs. This program has changed the lives of thousands of students in the region,” he noted.
In honor of Black History Month, the career of Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, director of the Institute for Regenerative Engineering, the chief executive officer of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science and a nationally recognized mentor, was highlighted on FOX CT’s morning show on Feb. 14.
Some of the prominent African American leaders within the Health Center’s administration and faculty include:
- Sanford Cloud, Jr., Chairman, UConn Health Center Board of Directors
- Dr. Lenworth Jacobs, Chair, Department of Traumatology and Emergency Medicine and Chair, Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Directors
- Carolle Andrews, UConn Health Center Chief Administrative Officer
- Dr. Marja Hurley, Associate Dean and Director, Office of Health Career Opportunity Programs
- Dr. Cato Laurencin, Director of the Institute for Regenerative Engineering, Chief Executive Officer of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science and the Van Dusen Endowed Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery
- Dr. David Henderson, Associate Dean, Medical Student Affairs
- Dr. Winston Campbell, Interim Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Professor
- Dr. Anton Alerte, Pediatrics
- Dr. Oluemi Aliyu, Occupational Medicine
- Dr. Biree Andemariam, Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Stacey Brown, Community Medicine and Health Care
- Dr. Latisha Dawson, Pediatrics
- Dr. Lawrence Engmann, Center for Advanced Reproductive Services
- Dr. Raquell Holmes, Cell Biology
- Dr. Khalilah Hunter-Anderson, Department of Traumatology and Emergency Medicine
- Dr. Damon Jenkins, Reconstructive Science
- Dr. Hilary Onyiuke, Director of Comprehensive Spine Center and Chief of the Division of Neurosurgery
- Dr. Janelle Ricketts, Department of Dermatology
- Dr. Wilner Samson, Department of Medicine, Nephrology
- Dr. Anjanette Ferris-Senatus, Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center
- Dr. Gary Turner, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Dr. Joseph Walker, Comprehensive Spine Center
- Dr. Lavern Wright, Center on Aging
- Dr. Granville Wrensford, Health Careers Opportunity Programs
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