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...used a two-tiered system in which applications from under-represented minorities—defined as African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans—are evaluated by a dedicated subcommittee before being pooled with the rest of the applicants for a final decision, according to Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, HMS associate dean for student affairs...
...Poussaint was instrumental in the racial integration of HMS in the 1970s, working together with the dean of HMS and then-Harvard President Derek C. Bok. He has written several groundbreaking books, maintaining throughout his career that widespread racial discrimination in America is one of the leading causes of mental illness among minorities. According to the countless tributes addressed to Poussaint on Saturday, the professor has inspired hundreds of young doctors and psychiatrists who would have otherwise felt alienated in the early days of the medical school’s integration efforts...
Saturday’s celebration, which began with a research symposium in the HMS Armenise Amphitheatre and ended with an extravagant dinner party at the Westin Hotel in Copley Square, was planned around the launch of the Alvin F. Poussaint, MD Lecture Fund, a program that will bring speakers to HMS who specialize in minority issues in medicine and psychiatry...
...afternoon address, Poussaint focused on nonviolence as a means of promoting mental health and racial harmony, saying that “wars and killing and violence make a mockery of health care...
Poussaint’s family was in attendance throughout the day, many of them circling the floor of the Westin’s American Ballroom and exchanging pleasantries with old friends and alumni. Poussaint himself could be seen posing for camera phone photos at the request of his many admirers...