May 17, 2010

Attend Tomorrow’s Diversity Recognition Awards Ceremony in Shriver Hall

The Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council will host the Diversity Recognition Awards on Tuesday, May 18, at noon in Shriver Hall on the university’s Homewood campus to honor faculty, staff and students whose efforts have fostered greater appreciation, advancement and celebration of diversity and inclusiveness in the Hopkins culture and environment. Join your colleagues in the celebration of the 2010 award recipients, who include:

• Dalal Haldeman, vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine Marketing and Communications and a member of the school of medicine and health system diversity steering committees, for her advocacy and support of diversity and inclusion initiatives. Haldeman established an Employee Engagement and Diversity Committee, funded internships for underrepresented minorities, and increased recruitment efforts for minority managers in her department.
• Justin McArthur, chair of the Department of Neurology, who has recruited minority trainee and faculty neurologists in a field where few underrepresented minorities practice. McArthur also has been a leader in the Specialized Neuroscience Research Program, which promotes neuroscience in predominantly minority medical schools.
• Barbara Zeigler, an R.N. at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, who translates medical requests and instructions for Spanish-speaking patients, and educates her colleagues on the benefits of multicultural nursing.
• Heather Benz, a school of medicine graduate student, for helping to create the Diversity and Academic Advancement Institute, a component of the Incentive Mentoring Program that brings together Hopkins, Dunbar High School students and the community.
• Robert Drummond, a predoctoral student, who in the span of six years helped recruit 13 African-American males into the medical doctorate program.
• Delia Silva, a neuroscience graduate student, for her work with the Junior Biomedical Scholars Mentorship Program, a local outreach program with Dunbar High School.
• Black History Month Committee of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, which organizes annual events and presentations to foster understanding of the African-American experience.
• Johns Hopkins Home Care Group’s Pharmaquip-Durable Medical Equipment division, which, through a partnership with the National Federation of the Blind, hosted a job fair for 12 visually-impaired students and will hire two students this year.

For the full list of award recipients, visit http://jhuaa.org/diversity-award.html. Contact Patrese Frazier at pfrazie6@jhu.edu or 410-516-8075 with questions.