{"id":18620,"date":"2024-01-15T18:49:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T23:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=18620"},"modified":"2024-01-15T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T23:49:18","slug":"event-honors-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-geisel-community-members-who-embody-his-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2024\/event-honors-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-and-geisel-community-members-who-embody-his-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Geisel Community Members Who Embody His Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among this week\u2019s events observing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement at Geisel School of Medicine celebrated the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during its annual \u201cI AM THE DREAM:\u00a0 Past, Present and Future\u201d awards luncheon featuring keynote speaker Barbara Ross-Lee, DO, FACOFP\u2014the first Black woman to lead a medical school and who is now the inaugural president of Maryland College of Osteopathic Medicine at Morgan State University.<\/p>\n

During her remarks, Ross-Lee asked the audience to reflect on the power of voice\u2014that King\u2019s voice was that of a young man, the same age as most medical students today, and his message remains relevant today. She went on to say that this day is an opportunity to honor King\u2019s legacy by actively addressing societal inequalities and health disparities; today is a statement of purpose for the future, and an important day to remind those in medicine of their role in fighting all forms of deep-seated bias. \u201cYou are part of the solution,\u201d Ross-Lee said. She also encouraged the medical students gathered to accept ownership of achieving health equity as a moral obligation \u201cto do what you can every day, wherever you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Left to Right: Omar Sajjad, Charles Thomas, Kristina Ali, Barbara Ross-Lee, Manish Mishra, Alisha Robinson, Irene Dankwa-Mullan, Duane Compton. Photo by Rob Strong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

King long fought for racial and economic justice in America. And in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he said, \u201cI have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event was also an opportunity to recognize Geisel faculty, staff, students, and alumni who have demonstrated the ideals, courage, compassion, dignity, humility, and service that exemplified King\u2019s character and empowered his leadership. This year\u2019s I AM THE DREAM Award honorees are:<\/p>\n

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Award<\/strong>\u2014Charles R. Thomas, MD, <\/strong>professor of medicine and chief radiation oncology at Dartmouth Cancer Center\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Samuel Ford McGill Award<\/strong>\u2014Irene Dankwa-Mullan MED \u201997, MPH,<\/strong> chief health officer at Marti Health,\u00a0adjunct professor at George Washington University Miken Institute School of Public Health<\/p>\n

Distinguished Alumni Award\u2014<\/strong>Gearald Onuoha MD, MPH \u201915, Internal Medicine Hospitalist\u00a0HCA Healthcare\/Envision<\/p>\n

Outstanding Faculty Award<\/strong>\u2014Manish K. Mishra MED \u201905, MPH \u201909, lecturer, interim director of student affairs The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice<\/p>\n

Outstanding Staff Award<\/strong>\u2014Megan Read, MPH, MLS, CIC, director of the Hybrid MPH Program<\/p>\n

Student of Merit Award<\/strong>\u2014Kristina Ali \u201924; Omar Sajjad \u201927<\/p>\n

Community Champion Award \u2013 <\/strong>Alisha Robinson, BSHCM, human resources business partner, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program coordinator at Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital\u00a0Dartmouth Health<\/p>\n

If you were unable to attend, you can watch video of the event here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Geisel community is also invited to a special event on Tuesday, January 16 at noon in the mezzanine in Kellogg Hall as Lenore Pearlstein, President and Co-owner of Potomac Publishing, Inc., and Co-publisher of\u00a0INSIGHT Into Diversity<\/em>\u00a0magazine, will present the 2023 Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award\u00a0to the Geisel School of Medicine. This award recognizes Geisel for its robust Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion infrastructure across campus, numerous efforts designed to provide education and training opportunities for the next generation of doctors, basic science researchers, health scientists, and rural initiatives that improve access to care for all in the communities we serve. Please RSVP at\u00a0https:\/\/dartmouth.co1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_9QQsRMlZsMFSTBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement at Geisel School of Medicine celebrated the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during its annual \u201cI AM THE DREAM:\u00a0 Past, Present and Future\u201d awards luncheon featuring keynote speaker Barbara Ross-Lee, DO, FACOFP on January 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":18623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[1202,1201,495],"class_list":["post-18620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-barbara-ross-lee","tag-dr-martin-luther-king","tag-mlk","author-12"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/MLKLuncheon_featured.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-4Qk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18626,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18620\/revisions\/18626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}