title: Grasping At The Moon: Enhancing Access To Careers In The Health Professions.
abstract: A former HHS secretary reflects on what's needed to enable more minorities to become doctors and other health professionals.
authors: Louis W. Sullivan (sullivan@pemsm.com) is chair of the Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions, in Washington, D.C., and chair of the National Health Museum, in Atlanta, Georgia. He served as secretary of health and human services from 1989 to 1993 and is the founding dean and president emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine, in Atlanta. He is the author of The Morehouse Mystique: Becoming a Doctor at the Nation's Newest African American Medical School (with Marybeth Gasman) and Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine (with David Chanoff).
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