WVU Department of Surgery The Department of Surgery

WVU Department of Surgery The Department of Surgery is one of the seventeen clinical departments within the School of Medicine. With divisions of Trauma/Acute Care Surgery/Surgical Critical Care, General Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Pediatric Surgery, and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. The Department of Surgery is committed to providing comprehensive, tertiary, surgical care to West Virginians and its neighbors. Previous Harriet Tubman Lecturers 2014 Wayne A. I. Frederick, MD Howard University Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine 2015 Adil H. Haider, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School of Public Health When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemonade: Strategies for Success as a Surgical Outcomes Scientist 2016 Patricia L. Turner, MD The Surgical Workforce: University of Chicago Generational Change American College of Surgeons 2017 L. D. Britt, MD Eastern Virginia Medical School Health Disparities: The Greatest Challenge Facing the Nation Contact us: 800 -982 -6277 Medical Access and Referral System (MARS) WVU Department of Surgery Office: 304 -293 -1272 Fax: 304 -293 -4711 medicine. wvu. edu/surgery WVU School of Medicine Department of Surgery 2018 HARRIET TUBMAN VISITING PROFESSOR Clive O. Callender, MD, FACS Professor of Surgery Founder and President of the National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP) Howard University College of Medicine Washington, D. C. Wednesday, February 21, 2018 WVU Health Sciences Center Pathology Amphitheater, Room 2118

Clive O. Callender, MD, FACS Dr. Clive O. Callender, Professor of Surgery at Howard University College of Medicine, is a native of New York and was educated in its public schools and colleges. In 1963, at Meharry Medical College he was the top ranking medical student and completed his surgical training at Freedmen’s Hospital in 1969, now known as Howard University. He received his transplant surgical training at the University of Minnesota, then at the University of Pittsburgh. He returned to Howard University Hospital in 1973 to help develop the first minority-directed dialysis and transplant center and histocompatibility and immunogenetic laboratory in this country. Prior to his transplant training, he pursued his goal in life to become a medical missionary by volunteering in Nigeria in the early 1970’s. In 1991, he founded the National Minority Organ/Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP) utilizing the successful joint HUH and Dow Chemical Company efforts that targeted the Black community. From 1995 -2008, he served as the Chairman of the Department of Surgery. In February 1996, he was appointed as the first La. Salle D. Leffall, Jr. Professor of Surgery at the Howard University College of Medicine. He has received Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Hunter College in 1994, Meharry Medical College in 2008, and Howard University in 2014. As a senior African American transplant surgeon and expert, he has had media appearances on the Oprah Show, CNN News, the CBS Evening News, and hundreds more. It is his dream to be remembered as a God-fearing surgeon who reached the “unreachable stars”. Harriet Tubman Visiting Professor Lecture The Harriet Tubman Visiting Professor Lecture is held annually in February to highlight diversity and disparity. Harriet Tubman is an American icon of courage and freedom, birth name Araminta Ross, born into slavery in 1822, in Dorchester County, MD and died from pneumonia on March 10, 1913 in Auburn, NY. She married twice, Nelson Davis 1869 -1888 and John Tubman 1844 -1851. She adopted one child, Davis Gertie. Ms. Tubman’s nickname was Minty and Moses. She was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, cook, nurse, and an armed scout and spy for the US Army during the American Civil War. She is nationally recognized as the “conductor” on the Underground Railroad during the 1850’s with the role of freeing those in slavery, including herself. Famous quotes from Mrs. Tubman are: “I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could hot have one, I would have the other” “I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land” Program 2018 Harriet Tubman Visiting Professor Clive O. Callender, MD, FACS DATE: Wednesday, February 21 LOCATION: WVU Health Science Center Pathology Amphitheater / Room 2118 TIME: 8: 00 a. m. “The National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program: Strategies Necessary to Eliminate Transplant Disparities in America (U. S. A)” 9: 00 a. m. Surgery Resident Case Presentations WVU is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer -- Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran