Memorial Heritage Lecture Series

Meharry Medical College, as a facet of the celebration of its centennial in1976, initiated the Memorial Heritage Lectures.

Their primary purpose is to recognize and honor those Meharrians who devoted their professional lives to Meharry, achieved unparalleled success and brought recognition to the College. A college-wide Centennial Committee solicited from each department names of deceased Meharrians who they believed should also be accorded such recognition.

During the centennial celebration and several years thereafter, the College, Schools and Departments sponsored speakers in each of the disciplines.

The Memorial Heritage Lectures serve two purposes:

• (1) To remind present-day Meharrians of former Meharrians whose work, dedication and vision have brought us this far in Meharry’s continued evolvement and on whose shoulders we stand, and

• (2) To bring to students and faculty outstanding contemporary role models to present cutting-edge medical information regarding the progress of medicine.

Currently, fifteen Memorial Heritage Lectures are conducted annually on campus. They are the:

• Daniel T. Rolfe Scholars Memorial Heritage Lecture             
  Presented by the Department of Physiology in the Fall of the Academic Year
   
• Michael J. Bent Memorial Heritage Lecture
  Presented by the Graduate School in the Spring of the Academic Year
   
• Allen-Watson Memorial Heritage Lecture   
    Presented by the School of Dentistry in the Fall of the Academic Year
   
• Quinland-Cuff-Frazier Memorial Heritage Lecture
    Presented by the Department of Pathology in the Fall of the Academic Year
  
• Robert A. Brown, Jr., Memorial Heritage Lecture    
    Presented by the Department of Internal Medicine in the Fall of the Academic Year
   
• Mobley-Singleton Memorial Heritage Lecture    
    Presented by the School of Dentistry in the Winter of the Academic Year
   
• Sam Cameron Memorial Heritage Lecture
    Presented during Black History Week in the February of the Academic Year
   
• Samuel O. Banks Memorial Heritage Lecture    
    Presented by the Department of Oral Surgery/School of Dentistry in the Spring of the Academic Year
   
• Ralph J. Cazort Scholars Heritage Lecture
    Presented by the Department of Pharmacology in the Spring of the Academic Year
   
• Rafael Hernandez Memorial Heritage Lecture 
    Presented by the Department of Psychiatry in the Spring of the Academic Year
   
• Carr A. Treherne Memorial Heritage Lecture    
    Presented by the Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology in the Spring of the Academic Year
   
• Joseph A.  Phillips Memorial Heritage Lecture                  
    Presented by the Sickle Cell Research Division of the Department of Internal Medicine in the Spring of the Academic Year
   
• George H. Howard, Jr. Memorial Heritage Lecture                
    Presented by the Graduate Student Association in the Winter of the Academic Year
   
• Hale-McMillian Memorial Heritage Lecture
    Presented by the Department of Surgery in the Spring of the Academic Year
   
• Turpin Memorial Heritage Lecture                                  
    Presented by the School of Dentistry in the Spring of the Academic Year
   
• Todd-Brown Memorial Heritage Lecture                               
    Presented by the Department of Internal Medicine in the Spring of the Academic Year
   
• Cleve W. Ewell, Jr. Memorial Heritage Lectures
    Presented by the Department of Internal Medicine in the Spring of the Academic Year

One Memorial Heritage Lecture recognizes a student. The Graduate Student Association and the School of Graduate Studies honors George Henry Howard, a candidate for the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, who died unexpectedly from a heart attack two months before his May 1990 commencement.

For more information on exact day, time and topics of these lectures, please contact the sponsoring departments.