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Psychiatry Grand Rounds: CARTER MEMORIAL LECTURE: "Addressing Health Inequities Using an Academic-Community Partnership to Improve Service Systems, Policy, and Practices in Community Mental Health Settings"

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Thursday, February 01, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Altha J. Stewart, MD
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Grand Rounds

The Carter Memorial Lecture honors Dr. James H. Carter Sr., the first African-American full professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Carter arrived at Duke in 1970 and served as a tenured professor for more than 20 years. Throughout his career he maintained a commitment to community psychiatry, particularly in the areas of substance abuse and mental health care for prisoners. Dr. Carter played a critical role in building mental health services at Lincoln Community Medical Center in Durham, the Alcohol Treatment Center in Raleigh, the Johnston County Mental Health Center, and the Department of Corrections. Dr. Carter received the American Psychiatric Association's 2003 Solomon Carter Fuller Award, named after the first African-American psychiatrist in the United States, for his advancements in the field. Since Dr. Carter's death in March 2007, the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences holds an annual lecture in his honor, highlighting work in community psychiatry, particularly among underrepresented minorities. This year's lecturer is Dr. Altha J. Stewart, Associate Professor/Chief of Social and Community Psychiatry, and Director, Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth at University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She currently serves as President-Elect of the American Psychiatric Association and is the first African-American person to hold this position.

Contact: Phillis Scott