May 21, 2024

Harold Jordan Lecture celebrating Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice to be June 7

Harold Jordan, MD, was the first Black resident physician at VUMC, and each year the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences hosts a named lecture in his honor.

Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry, 1967. Harold Jordan, M.D., is the only African-American in a sea of white faces. (Photo from Eskind Biomedical Library Special Collections).

Harold Jordan, MD, was the first Black resident physician at VUMC, and each year the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences hosts a named lecture in his honor.

This year’s 6th Annual Harold Jordan Lecture is set for noon on June 7 in the Luton Lecture Room 1206 in the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital.

The speaker is Dierdre Anglin, PhD, associate professor of Psychology at the City University of New York, and the topic is Infusing DEI in our Research Programs: An Example Studying the Social Patterning of Psychosis.”

The lecture will also be viewable via Teams.

For more information on the lecture, including access to the Teams log-in information, go here.

For more information about Harold Jordan and his legacy, go here.