This evening event is open to Washington U niversity and the St. Louis community. Past speakers have included Charles Ogletree and Johnnetta Cole\, and William Julius Wilson.
Guest speake r: Sherman James\, PhD
Lecture title: “The Black Image in the White M ind: Implications for Achieving Racial Equity in America.”
Sherman Ja mes\, PhD is the guest speaker for the Office of Diversity Programs 2016 Ma rtin Luther King Jr. Celebration Lecture. A social epidemiologist\, James is a Research Professor of Epidemiology and African American Studies at Emo ry University. At Duke\, he was the inaugural Susan B. King Professor of P ublic Policy from 2003-2014 and also held professorships in Sociology\, Com munity and Family Medicine\, and African and African American Studies. Pri or to Duke\, he taught in the epidemiology departments at the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill (1973-1989)\, and the University of Michigan (1989-2003).
James received the AB degree (Psychology and Philosophy) from Talladega College (AL) in 1964\, and the PhD degree in Psychology fro m Washington University in St. Louis\, in 1973.
James is the originat or of the John Henryism Hypothesis which posits that repetitive\, “high-eff ort” coping with social and economic adversity is a major contributor to th e well-known excess risk for hypertension and related cardiovascular diseas es experienced by poor and working class African Americans. He received a 5 year (1982-1987) Research Career Development Award\, followed by over 20 y ears of continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health to suppor t his work on John Henryism.
James was elected to the National Academ y of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academy of Sciences\, in 2000. In 2007-2008\, he served as president of the Societ y for Epidemiologic Research (SER)\, the largest professional organization of epidemiologists in the world. In 2008\, he was named a Distinguished Al umnus of Washington University in St. Louis\, and he currently serves on Wa shington University’s National Advisory Council for Arts and Sciences.
< p>The Celebration lecture will take place at 4:00 p.m. in the Eric P. Newma n Center at Washington University School of Medicine\, 320 S. Euclid Av.The event is free of charge.
To RSVP\, please call the Office of Diversity Programs at 314-362-6854 or email us at medschooldiversity@wusm.wustl.edu.
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