Martin Luther King Jr. Day

January 17, 2019

Deas to deliver Jan. 21 Martin Luther King Jr. lecture

Deborah Deas, MD, MPH, the Mark and Pam Rubin Dean of the School of Medicine and chief executive officer for Clinical Affairs at the University of California, Riverside, will speak from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in conjunction with the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series at Vanderbilt.

By Kathy Whitney
January 19, 2017

MLK lecturer sees teamwork as crucial to health care diversity

David Gordon, M.D., dean of the University of Akron College of Health Professions, gave the 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture on Monday at Vanderbilt, touching on the theme of teamwork as it relates to health care diversity.

By Kathy Whitney
January 21, 2016

MLK lecturer highlights the power of perseverance

As a child in Africa, Rita Adeniran, DNP, R.N., had never heard of Martin Luther King Jr.

By Jessica Pasley
January 15, 2015

Yale’s Forman to deliver Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture

James Forman Jr., a clinical professor of Law and supervising attorney at Yale Law School, is scheduled to deliver the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Monday, Jan. 19.

By Jessica Pasley
January 23, 2014

Events honor King’s call to dream, serve, inspire

Vanderbilt University Medical Center honored the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy with, among other events, a lecture by UCLA Nursing School Dean Courtney Lyder, N.D., Sc.D., and presentation of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. award.

By VUMC News and Communications
January 9, 2014

UCLA Nursing School dean set for MLK lecture

Courtney H. Lyder, N.D., Sc.D., dean of the UCLA School of Nursing, is set to deliver the keynote address during the 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Monday, Jan. 20.

By Jessica Pasley
January 24, 2013

MLK Day speaker explores health inequality issues

The Martin Luther King Jr. Day address at Vanderbilt University Medical Center was part statement about progress toward health goals, and part sermon about the need to finish the march to the promised land of health equality.
By VUMC News and Communications