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Track
2-4
Policy
The Role of Government and National Organizations
in Supporting a Culturally Diverse Workforce
A free-ranging examination and critique of past and current
efforts to address minority recruitment and training in the health professions
through strengthening the pipeline, developing special enrichment and
preparatory curricula, affirmative action, and other programs and policies,
will look particularly at the success and limitations of federal and private
initiatives.
Ciriaco Q. Gonzales, PhD
Director, Division of Disadvantaged Assistance
DHHS, HRSA, Bureau of Health Professions
5600 Fishers Lane, Rm. 8A-09
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: (301) 443-2100
Fax: (301) 443-4943
Cgonzales@hrsa.dhhs.gov
Herbert W. Nickens, MD, MA
Vice President for Community and Minority Programs
Association of American Medical Colleges
2450 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037-1127
Phone: (202) 828-0572
Fax: (202) 828-1125
hwnickens@aamc.org
Tragically, Mr. Nickens passed away in early 1999. We mourn his absence,
and honor his long commitment to minority health issues.
Dr. Nickens is the first Vice President and director
of the Division of Community and Minority Programs at the AAMC, and has
held that position since December, 1988. AAMC created this Division to
focus its commitment on an expanded role for minorities in medicine and
improving minority health status.
Before his current position Dr. Nickens was the first Director
of the Office of Minority Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services. He was appointed to that position by Secretary Otis Bowen, MD
in January, 1986. Prior to that he was Director, of the Office of Policy,
Planning, and Analysis of the National Institute on Aging (NIH), and before
that was Deputy Chief, Center on Aging, National Institutes of Mental
Health.
Dr. Nickens was born in Washington, D.C. on December 28, 1947,
received his AB in 1969 from Harvard College, and an MD and MA (in Sociology)
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973. He served his residency in
psychiatry at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. At the University
of Pennsylvania he was also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, and
a member of the faculty of the School of Medicine.
He has written numerous articles, lectured frequently on geriatrics,
minority health, and AIDS, and made a number of appearances on radio and
television programs. He also serves as a reviewer for several medical
journals. He is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology. He also received the History of Medicine Prize from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1973, and in 1978 the Kenneth Appel Award from the
Philadelphia County Medical Society and the Laughlin Prize from the National
Psychiatric Endowment Fund.
He is a member-at-large, National Board of Medical Examiners; member,
National Advisory Committee, Arthur Ashe Program in AIDS Care, National
Medical Fellowships; and a member of the National Medical Association,
the American Public Health Association, and Black Psychiatrists of America.
Dr. Nickens is married to Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, MD; they have
two children, Caitlin Marie and Chloe Chambliss. NEXT >
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