| Meharry
Medical College
Nashville,
Tennessee
Meharry Medical
College exists to improve the health and health care of minority
and underserved communities by offering excellent education and
training programs in the health sciences; placing special emphasis
on providing opportunities to people of color and individuals
from disadvantaged backgrounds, regardless of race or ethnicity;
delivering high quality health services; and conducting research
that foster the elimination of health disparities.
Meharry Medical College
was founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee
College of Nashville , under the auspices of the Freedman's Aid
Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1900, Central Tennessee
College became Walden University , and by 1915 the College gained
a separate corporate existence from the university.
Meharry has 202 full-time
faculty members, many of whom are the nation's most eminent in
health-science education and in clinical and basic research.
Meharry Medical College,
with its experience, knowledge and sensitivity, is a unique and
irreplaceable resource in the nation's effort to address the disparity
in health status between minorities and other Americans. It's
existence, its prosperity, helps fulfill the need for diversity
in the health professions workforce.
www.mmc.edu
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