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Mary
Lynn Morgan Annual Lectureship The Mary Lynn Morgan Annual Lectureship on Women in the Health Professions
Follow the links to learn more about past lectures: Ninth-annual lecture with Dr. Kathy Parker (2007); Eighth-annual lecture with Dr. Harriet Robinson (2006); Seventh-annual lecture with Dr. Marilynne McKay (2005); Sixth-annual lecture with Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding (2004); Fifth-annual lecture with Dr. Marla Salmon (2003); Fourth-annual lecture with Dr. Claire Sterk (2002); Third-annual lecture with Dr. Kathleen Toomey (2001); Second-annual lecture with Dr. Luella Klein (2000); Inaugural lecture with Dr. Nanette Kass Wenger (1999). 2007 Dr. Kathy Parker
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Her many publications include articles and book chapters on vulvar disorders for generalists as well as specialists in dermatology, gynecology, and psychiatry. She was elected President of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Disease and co-edited a classic textbook, Obstetric and Gynecologic Dermatology. Acclaimed as an informative and entertaining lecturer for audiences around the world, Dr. McKay organized the first forum on teaching techniques at the American Academy of Dermatology and mentored junior faculty both at Emory and for the Women’s Dermatologic Society. At Emory, she was Chief of Dermatology at Grady Memorial Hospital and later the Executive Director of Continuing Medical Education. She also served on the School of Medicine and University committees on the status of women at Emory. A graduate of the University of New Mexico with an MS from Oklahoma State University, she worked as a medical research technologist before deciding at the age of thirty to go to medical school. After completing her dermatology residency at the University of Miami, Dr. McKay came to Emory as an assistant professor in 1980. Six years ago, she retired and returned to her home town of Albuquerque, where she chaired the dermatology department at Lovelace Health System and pursued her interest in drama, completing a Masters Program in Directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UNM. In May, Dr. McKay and her husband, Dr. Ronald Hosek, returned to Atlanta, their “Emerald City.” She is looking forward to combining her interests in medical teaching and the performing arts.
2004 Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding The Sixth Annual Mary Lynn Morgan Lectureship on Women in the Health Professions titled: "At-Home Health Care -- Thank You, Dr. Mom!" was delivered by Dr. Julie Gerberding on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 at 7:30 pm in the Cannon Chapel of Emory University. A reception followed. Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., has been the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) since July 2002. In addition to her duties at CDC and ATSDR, Dr. Gerberding
is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at
Emory University and an Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Gerberding was director of the Prevention Epicenter, a multidisciplinary research, training, and clinical service program that focused on preventing infections in patients and their healthcare providers. In 1998 she joined the CDC as Director of the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, NCID. Prior to her current positions at CDC and ATSDR, she was Acting Deputy Director at National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), where she played a major role in leading CDC’s response to the anthrax bioterrorism events of 2001. Dr. Gerberding has authored or co-authored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to numerous guidelines and policies relevant to HIV prevention, post-exposure prophylaxis, management of infected healthcare personnel, and healthcare-associated infection prevention. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Annals of Internal Medicine and is Associate Editor of the American Journal of Medicine in addition to peer-reviewing numerous other journals.
2003 Dr. Marla E. Salmon The Fifth Annual Mary Lynn Morgan Lectureship on Women in the Health Professions titled "The Crisis in Caring: Nursing and the Failing Demographic Equation" was delivered by Dr. Marla E. Salmon on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. in the Michael C. Carlos Museum reception hall of Emory University. A reception followed. Marla Salmon, ScD, RN, FAAN, the dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School
of Nursing of Emory University, is a professor of both nursing and public
health at Emory, and is also founding director of the Lillian Carter Center
for International Nursing in the School of Nursing. These leadership roles
build on a career dedicated to improving the health of people through
nursing and public health. Dr. Salmon's areas of teaching, research, and
publication include health policy and administration, public health nursing
and health workforce development. A recipient of the President's Meritorious
Executive Award and the American Nurses' Association Community Health
Nurse of the Year award among others, Dr. Salmon has also been recognized
by the National Black Nurses' Foundation for her role in enhancing the
ethnic and racial diversity of the nation's nursing workforce. Dr. Salmon received her doctoral degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, holds degrees in nursing and political science from the University of Portland and is the recipient of two honorary degrees. Dr. Salmon has also been a Fellow in the W. K. Kellogg National Fellowship Program and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
The Fourth Annual Mary Lynn Morgan Lectureship on Women in the Health Professions titled "Empowering Women: The Health Challenges That Lie Ahead" was delivered by Dr. Claire Sterk, noted researcher and professor at the Rollins School of Public Health on Tuesday, October 8, 2002, 7:30 pm, Michael C. Carlos Museum. The first person to identify the risk of HIV infection due to unprotected
sex among crack users, Dr. Claire E. Sterk is also an accomplished author.
Her two books are Fast Lives: Women Who Use Crack Cocaine and Tricking
and Tripping: Prostitution in the Era of AIDS. These books, which
both feature ethnographic studies and have been translated into several
languages, have solidified her standing as a leading national and international
figure in the field of public health and anthropology. She is considered
one of the ten most highly regarded applied anthropologists working on
health issues and is among the very best social scientists studying the
AIDS epidemic. Kathleen E. Toomey, MD, MPH, well known for her work in the prevention of STDs and HIV/AIDS, as well as women’s health and reproductive health policy, delivered the third lecture in the Mary Lynn Morgan Annual Lectureship on Women in the Health Professions series. Her talk, titled "The Evolution of Women's Health: What is it Anyway," took place Wednesday, October 17, at 7:30pm at the Miller Ward Alumni House. As Director of the Division of Public Health, Georgia Department of Human Resources, Dr. Toomey is responsible not only for providing public health leadership throughout the state, but for setting the state’s public health policies. She heads the agency that is responsible for: maternal and child health, environmental health and injury prevention, outbreak investigations and infectious disease prevention including sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis; the Women, Infant, and Children’s (WIC) Nutrition Program, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), vital records, epidemiology and health statistics, chronic disease prevention and health promotion, and the Public Health Laboratory. In addition to her duties as Georgia’s Director of Public Health, Dr. Toomey serves as adjunct associate professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and International Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, clinical associate professor of medicine at Emory School of Medicine, and clinical associate professor at Morehouse University School of Medicine. After receiving a degree in Biology from Smith College and studying as a Fulbright Scholar in Peru, Dr. Toomey received both her MD and MPH degrees from Harvard University. A Board Certified Family Practitioner, Dr. Toomey has received numerous honors and awards including, the CDC Award for Contributions to the Advancement of Women and the Public Health Service Plaque for Outstanding Leadership. She has served on the boards of many professional and national organizations including the Alan Guttmacher Institute and is currently a member of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Board of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Luella Klein delivered the second annual lecture in the Mary Lynn Morgan Annual Lectureship on Women in the Health Professions series. Her talk, titled " Birth Control: Are Women on the Right Track?" took place on October 11, 2000. Dr. Klein is the Charles Howard Candler Professor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a subspecialist in Maternal-Fetal Medicine and has a long time interest in women's health care issues and reproductive health policy. She received her BA (summa cum laude) and MD degrees at the University of Iowa and her Obstetric and Gynecological specialty training at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, followed by a Fulbright Fellowship in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of London in England. Dr. Klein has been in private practice and was the Assistant Director of Clinical Research at Bristol Laboratories. She was Chairman of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine from 1986 to 1993, the first and only woman to be named chair in the Emory School of Medicine. She is the Director of the Maternal and Infant Care Project, the Comprehensive Care Program for high-risk obstetric patients at Grady Memorial Hospital. She is Vice President of Women's Health of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Luella Klein has received awards from the Georgia Perinatal Association, the Georgia Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, an Atlanta Women History Maker Award, the American Medical Women's Association Elizabeth Blackwell Award, the Emory Medal, the Daggett Harvey Award of the Chicago Maternity Center and Northwestern University, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Distinguished Service Award, the Georgia Commission on Women's Award, Georgia Women Pioneers in Health Care 1998 and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Jacobs Institute 1998. Dr. Klein has been President of the Atlanta Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, the Georgia Obstetrical and Gynecological Society and the Society of Maternal and Infant Care Project Directors, and been President of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She is currently Director of Women's Health Issues for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Klein is Past President, former Vice President of Atlanta's Planned Parenthood, member and former Chair of the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) Board of Directors and past member of the National Academy Sciences Committee for the Study of Prevention of Low Weight Births, a member of the Southern Governor's Task Force on Infant Mortality and the National Institutes of Health Content of Prenatal Care Committee. She is a member and Past Chair of the Maternal and Infant Health Committee of the Medical Association of Georgia, former member of the Board of Trustees of the Berlex Foundation, a member of the Board of Family Health International, member and Past Chair of the Governing Council and Policy Committee of the Maternal and Infant Health Section of the American Hospital Association and Past Member of the ABOG and its Maternal Fetal Medicine Division. Dr. Klein is is also a past member of the Medical Education Foundation and Executive Committee of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Dr. Nanette Kass Wenger, chief of cardiology at Grady Memorial Hospital, delivered the inaugural lecture for the Mary Lynn Morgan Annual Lectureship on Women in the Health Professions. She spoke on "Women's Health: Not Solely a Medical Issue" on October 7, 1999 in Emory's Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall. She is also director of the Cardiac Clinics, a professor of medicine in Emory School of Medicine's Division of Cardiology, and a consultant to the Emory Heart Center. Dr. Wenger is credited with dispelling the myth of heart disease as solely a man's illness. Dr. Wenger—who was named the American Heart Association Physician of the Year in 1998—was among the first physician-scientists to speak out about the great underrepresentation of women subjects in medical research. She was the first president of the Georgia affiliate of the American Heart Association. Elected as a master of the American College of Physicians, her record of professional service and honor is unmatched. Currently, Dr. Wenger heads the Emory component of the Heart and Estrogen-Progestin Replacement Study (HERS), a national study evaluating whether hormone-replacement therapy can prevent recurrent coronary episodes in women with heart disease after menopause. She is also one of the two coprincipal investigators leading the EVISTA trial, an international study testing-in some 10, 000 women, in twenty-five countries-the role of the osteoporosis drug Reloxifene in preventing coronary death and heart attack in postmenopausal women. A graduate of Hunter College (summa cum laude) and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Wenger has authored and coauthored more than 900 scientific and review articles and book chapters. She is a recipient of the President's Women in Science Award of the American Medical Women's Association. She has fought passionately for equal research among women and has achieved results. Since beginning her crusade, Congress has created the Office of Research in Women's Health as part of the National Institutes of Health and has passed legislation requiring that all government-funded studies of health problems common to both men and women study each gender equally. |
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The
Center for Women at Emory established in 1999 the Mary Lynn Morgan
Annual Lectureship on Women in the Health Professions, which honors
one of Emory's most beloved and respected citizens. Mary Lynn Morgan
was graduated in 1943 from Atlanta-Southern Dental College, which became
the Emory University School of Dentistry the following year. In 1947
she began to develop a practice exclusive to pediatric dentistry, which
she continued until 1976.
