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Article: Opening doors; Harvard Medical School's Joan Reede is workingto narrow the racial gaps in healthcare leadership.
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- September 26, 2005
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Byline: Michael Romano
Joan Reede has devoted much of her professional life to a simply stated but endlessly challenging objective: convincing young people they can be like her-a minority physician with an Ivy League education.
"I was raised that if you work hard and you're willing to put out the effort, you can succeed at just about anything,'' she says. "And that's what I tell kids today.''
Reede, 52, tells her life's story to students as part of her duties at Harvard Medical School. As the first black woman ever named as a dean at the world-renowned institution, Reede is a national role model who has bridged the yawning cultural and societal ...