The Department of Medicine’s Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee will host a reception for the Alumni members, Friday, June 14 at the JB Duke Hotel. The reception will showcase and highlight the recent and past successes of alumni.
Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee is dedicated to providing diversity, leadership development, and networking opportunities for underrepresented minority faculty and trainees.
Many of the Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee Alumni have established mentors and longtime friends from their time serving.
An oral history project in the Division of Gastroenology feature a couple of the earliest African-American physician’s in the Department of Medicine. The interviews were conducted in 2018 by trainees or mentees of the faculty.
Dr. Joanne Wilson, a member of the MRCC, conducted an interview with Dr. Sadye Curry,
who is the first African American woman gastroenterologist in the U.S. She trained at Duke as the first African American and the first woman trainee. “She's a distinguished professor and has been an inspiration to me and my career, and I'm pleased to talk with her today about her career”, said Dr.Wilson.
Bonike Oloruntoba, MD interviewed Joanne Wilson who said, “I was only the fourth African American student to matriculate to Duke Medicine”.
During the interviews the key innovators for Duke Division of Gastroenterology spoke on the numerous changes from the Duke they knew then to the Duke they know now.
Division Chief Andrew Muir said “This is a chance to understand that history of some of these exceptional people that walk the halls of Duke GI and to share some wonderful memories."
To learn more and registrar for the MRCC event contact, Kim Dorman at kimberly.dorman@duke.edu.