Augustus A. White III (Class of 1957) documents relating to his career as a surgeon during the Vietnam War (AMS.1U.2016.002)
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Collection Overview
| Title: | Augustus A. White III (Class of 1957) documents relating to his career as a surgeon during the Vietnam War |
| Date range: | 1966-2015 |
| Creator: | Shufro, Cathy |
| Extent: | 0.25 Linear Feet |
| Abstract: | This collection contains magazine articles and photographs related to the career of Augustus A. White III (Brown, Class of 1957) as an orthopedic surgeon. He is a Vietnam Veteran. He served 2 years as an army surgeon a year of which, August 1966-August 1967, he was stationed at the 85th Evacuation Hospital in the Qui Nhon region of Vietnam. During that year he also volunteered during his off-duty time at the St. Francis Leprosarium run by Catholic nuns in a nearby village where he treated patients fighting leprosy. He went on to have a distinguished career as the first African American to graduate from Stanford Medical School in 1961 and held positions in orthopedic surgery at Yale Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has also been keenly interested in issues of race, bias, and disparity in medical care and education. In 2011 he founded Harvard's Culturally Competent Care Education Program to begin combating the unconscious and conscious biases of health care professionals and educators. |
| Language of materials: | English. |
| Repository: | John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts |
| Collection number: | AMS.1U.2016.002 |
