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Sullivan describes Franzblau as a true leader, extolling the courage, determination, integrity, and flexibility he exemplified for his students. For instance, he recalls, Franzblau helped organize a program to increase African-American enrollment at medical schools in and around Boston. In 1968, Sullivan and Franzblau, along with eight other colleagues, invited African-American students from universities and colleges in the South to spend the weekend after Thanksgiving at one of New England’s medical schools. The program was so successful, Sullivan says, that the following year, black enrollment at the medical colleges involved in the program increased tremendously. Sullivan commends Franzblau for his continued efforts to increase diversity in the biomedical sciences and end health disparities

 

 

 

Louis Sullivan (MED’58) is founding dean and president emeritus of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. Sullivan graduated from Morehouse College in 1954 and earned his medical degree at Boston University. He went on to serve as an instructor at Harvard Medical School and an assistant professor of medicine at Seton Hall College of Medicine in New Jersey. From 1966 to 1975, he taught medicine at Boston University Medical Center, where he also co-directed the hematology unit and founded the BU Hematology Service at Boston City Hospital. He later became the founding dean and director of the Medical Education Program at Morehouse College. When the medical school became independent from Morehouse College in 1981, Sullivan became its first dean and president. In 1989, he was appointed Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He returned to Morehouse School of Medicine in 1993 to serve as president until 2002.