Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan is a podcast. It has 1 episodes, with the latest published June 1992.

A distinguished physician, educator and public servant, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan was the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (H&HS) in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. The son of an undertaker in rural Georgia, Louis Sullivan excelled academically and graduated with honors from Atlanta's Morehouse College in 1955. He earned a scholarship to Boston University Medical School, where he became a full professor after serving as an instructor at Harvard Medical School. One of the nation's leading experts on blood and blood disease, he was the first scientist to determine the minimum requirement of vitamin B-12 for human health, and was a pioneer in the study of the effects of alcoholism on the blood-forming system. Sullivan returned to Morehouse College in the 1970s to serve as founding dean and first president of Morehouse School of Medicine. In 1989, Dr. Sullivan was invited by President George H.W. Bush to join his cabinet as Secretary of H&HS, the federal

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