Garth Graham, M.D. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health Department of Health and Health Services "HEALTHCARE FOR UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN HEALTH REFORM"

College of Business Complex 155 ~ Modesto A. Maidique Campus
Florida International University
Thursday, October 29, 2009, 3:30 pm

Dr. Garth N. Graham, Florida International University and Honors College Graduate (1997), will deliver  the Fall 2009 Honors College Excellence Lecture. His talk, titled “Healthcare for Underserved Communities: Challenges and Opportunities in Health Reform,” will take place on Thursday, October 29, 2009. The lecture begins at 3:30 PM in the College of Business Complex on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus of Florida  International University.

Dr. Graham is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health in the Office of Minority Health at the Department of Health and Human Services. The Office of Minority Health develops and coordinates federal health policy that addresses minority health concerns and ensures that federal, state and local health programs take into account the needs of disadvantaged, racial and ethnic populations. Dr. Graham was previously appointed a White House Fellow and special assistant to former Secretary Tommy G. Thompson at the Department of Health and Human Services. He founded the Boston Men's Cardiovascular Health Project. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, where he trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and serves as a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has authored many scientific articles and presentations on cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS and community medicine.

Dr. Graham earned an M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine, where he graduated cum laude. He was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and named a Yale President Public Service Fellow. He also earned an M.P.H. from the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health with a focus in health policy administration. He has received numerous accolades for his leadership and service in promoting health, including the 2002 American Medical Association Leadership Award, the Partners in Excellence Award, the Miriam Kathleen Dasey Award from Yale Medical School and the 2005 Reginald Hawkins Award. The Business Network Journal also named him one of its Forty Leaders Under Forty.

To RSVP, please call Lourdes Pereira at 305-348-4100 no later than October 26, 2009.

You can also confirm your attendance in Facebook at: http://honors.fiu.edu/ggraham