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Comedian Bill Cosby joined hundreds of Harvard Medical School (HMS) alums Saturday to honor famed civil rights activist and Professor of Psychiatry Alvin F. Poussaint, in an extensive all-day tribute...
Poussaint, who serves as Associate Dean for Student Affairs at HMS, has been on the cutting edge of the mental health field since the 1960s. A pioneer in the civil rights movement, Poussaint is best known for linking issues of racial inequality with the practice of psychiatry and served as a field medic at two of Martin Luther King Jr.’s demonstration marches through Mississippi...
Poussaint was instrumental in the racial integration of HMS in the 1970s, working together with the dean of HMS and then-Harvard President Derek C. Bok. He has written several groundbreaking books, maintaining throughout his career that widespread racial discrimination in America is one of the leading causes of mental illness among minorities. According to the countless tributes addressed to Poussaint on Saturday, the professor has inspired hundreds of young doctors and psychiatrists who would have otherwise felt alienated in the early days of the medical school’s integration efforts...
Saturday’s celebration, which began with a research symposium in the HMS Armenise Amphitheatre and ended with an extravagant dinner party at the Westin Hotel in Copley Square, was planned around the launch of the Alvin F. Poussaint, MD Lecture Fund, a program that will bring speakers to HMS who specialize in minority issues in medicine and psychiatry...
...HMS affiliate wrote in an e-mail, she later “met with [Vaghar’s] brother, mother, and spoke with her father on the phone, the entire family is alive and out of the hospital...