July 20, 2009
NC Health Careers
Access Program recognizes Brenda E. Armstrong with the 2009 Cecil G. Sheps
Leadership Award
Chapel Hill - The North
Carolina Health Careers Access Program (NC-HCAP) presented its 2009 Cecil G.
Sheps Leadership Award to Brenda E. Armstrong, M.D., recognizing her commitment
to diversifying the health care work force. The award presentation took
place July 9 at the graduation ceremony for NC-HCAP's Science Enrichment Preparation
(SEP) Program.
Patrena
Benton, director of NC-HCAP, said the program was pleased to recognize Dr.
Armstrong's efforts in increasing diversity in medical education with the 2009 award.
"If he were
here with us today, I believe that Dr. Sheps would be pleased that the award is
being bestowed upon Dr. Armstrong. She is nationally recognized for her work in
increasing student diversity in medical education," said Dr. Patrena Benton,
NC-HCAP director. "She understands that a diverse health care work force is a
necessity, and is at the forefront of those doing something about it."
Dr. Brenda
Armstrong currently serves as the associate dean and director of admissions at
Duke University School of Medicine. During her tenure at Duke she has recruited
some of the most diverse classes in the medical school's history. She is also
an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology,
and she is distinguished as the second black woman in the United States
to become a board-certified pediatric cardiologist. Dr. Armstrong's current
research focuses on gender and race based disparity in medical education.
The NC-HCAP
Cecil G. Sheps Leadership Award is named for the organization's founder and is
given annually to individuals or entities who have proactively sought out and
implemented strategies to increase underrepresented minorities in a health
sciences discipline and/or who have worked in partnership with NC-HCAP to
support its mission and activities. Past recipients of the award were: Eva
Clayton, Dr. E. Lavonia Allison, Dr. Robert Thorpe, Larry Keith, Dr. Clay
Simpson, the NC Area Health Education Centers Program, the UNC Office of
Minority Affairs, the NC Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, former
UNC Chancellor James Moeser, and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Established
in 1971 by Cecil G. Sheps, NC-HCAP is an inter-institutional program of the University of North Carolina system designed to
increase the number of underrepresented minority students who successfully
pursue health careers.
For more
information about the North Carolina Health Careers Access Program and its
activities or the NC- HCAP Cecil G. Leadership Award, contact us at (919)
966-2264 or visit our Web site at http://nchcap.unc.edu.
NC Health Careers
Access Program contact: Renee Harris, (919) 966- 2264, rharris@unc.edu
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About NC-HCAP: NC-HCAP is an interinstitutional program
of the University
of North Carolina
committed to increasing the number of underrepresented minority and
economically/educationally disadvantaged students pursuing health careers.
For more information about the North Carolina Health Careers
Access Program, visit our Web site at http://nchcap.unc.edu
or contact (919) 966-2264.
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NC Health Careers Access Program