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Association challenges knowledge of history In recognition of Black History Month, the Student National Pharmaceutical Association will present a weekly question about African-Americans in health care.    To participate in the weekly prize drawing, submit answers to this week’s question at http://trivia.snphamusc.com. Here is last week’s question and answer: Q: This African-American woman was born in Lykesland. She had been in the nursing field for more than 30 years before retiring. In January 1999 she was named an honoree by a well-known, national company. Some of her outstanding accomplishments include co-founding a council in Columbia, having works published as an author and co-author, and being placed on the Columbia Housing Authority’s 1989 Wall of Fame. Who is this woman? A: Jean Sanders Hopkins. She was born on April 19, 1931, and grew up in the Waverly and Saxon Homes communities of Columbia. Hopkins retired from her most recent position as assistant chief of nursing at Columbia’s Dorn Veterans Administration Hospital in 1993. Hopkins received her registered nursing diploma in 1953, from the then-segregated Columbia Hospital School of Nursing, and her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from the University of South Carolina in 1976.   Hopkins has authored and co-authored several publications on healthcare and nursing practice. These include the highly acclaimed article, “Cultural Diversity in Nursing Practice,” and “Teenage Sexuality—Risky,” co-authored with Delores Roberts. She also initiated the format for The Memoirs of Sadie F. Nickpeay, which chronicles the life of an African-American nurse midwife in South Carolina. An accomplishment she is especially proud of is having one of her articles included in “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants,” Stories of Nurses by Nurses, Center for American Nurses, 2004.   Hopkins serves as a role model for others by enhancing the image of nurses as competent professionals. One of her favorite sayings is, “If your mind can conceive it, if your heart can believe it, then you can achieve it.” Always stressing good healthcare, Hopkins admonishes, “In order to be truly successful, one must first be healthy in mind, body, and spirit.” This week’s question This gentleman is a 1979 graduate of MUSC, School of Dental Medicine. He also received the Martin Luther King Jr. Award from The Citadel at the Black History Intercollegiate Consortium this year and was mentioned in The Catalyst Jan. 19. Who is he?     Friday, Feb. 9, 2007 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Island Publications at 849-1778, ext. 201.