(Submitted by Janecia O. ’19) 

👨🏾‍⚕️ Graduated from Booker T. Washington High-School in 1950.

👨🏾‍⚕️ Graduated from Morehouse College in 1954 with his B.S. degree in Biology
👨🏾‍⚕️ He later received his M.D. degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1958 and completed his residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. 👨🏾‍⚕️Dr. Sullivan began his pathology fellowship in the year 1960 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. This took place before he began working at Boston City Hospital and studying hematology at the Thorndike Laboratory. 👨🏾‍⚕️In 1966, he became Co-director of hematology at Boston University Medical Center and the following year he founded Boston University’s Hematology Service. 👨🏾‍⚕️Sullivan returned to Atlanta in 1975 to serve as the first dean of the newly founded Medical Education program at Morehouse College teaching Biology and Medicine. 👨🏾‍⚕️ In 1976, Sullivan helped found the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools to promote a national minority health agenda.
👨🏾‍⚕️When Morehouse School of Medicine became independent in 1981, Sullivan stayed as the dean and first president. 👨🏾‍💼In 1988, President George H.W. Bush appointed Sullivan to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.
👨🏾‍⚕️ He was appointed by President George W. Bush to chair the White House initiative on historically black colleges and universities advisory committee in 2003.
👨🏾‍⚕️Dr. Sullivan has received more than sixty honorary degrees, including an honorary M.D. degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He received the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases in 2008 and his autobiography received the NAACP Image Award for Literature in 2015.

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