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Diversity educator receives diversity, culture award


Deborah Deas, M.D., professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and senior associate dean for strategic diversity initiatives in the College of Medicine, was named  a recipient of the 2009 Jeanne Spurlock Lecture and Award for Diversity and Culture presented by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Oct. 29 in Honolulu.
 
The award recognizes individuals who made contributions to advancing understanding of diversity and culture in children’s mental health and who contribute to the recruitment of child and adolescent psychiatry from all cultures.
 
As senior associate dean for admissions, Deas piloted a strategic diversity plan to increase the health care workforce across the continuum, including medical students, residents and faculty. This plan increased minority faculty at the College of Medicine by more than 100 percent, almost quadrupling the number of minority resident physicians at the school and grew the amount of minority students to 19 percent of the student body.
 
Deas presented the topic,” Addressing Health Care Disparities: MUSC College of Medicine Model,” during the honors presentation of AACAP’s annual meeting.



Friday, Nov. 20, 2009


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