Saturday, June 2, 2012

Morehouse Med. School Sets Up Unique Program; Starts First Chair on Sexuality and Religion in US

The Huffington Post website reports today (June 2, 2012) that the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia is establishing the first endowed chair on sexuality and religion at a U.S. medical school.

The medical school announced it raised $2 million for the endowed chair, and it will begin a one-year national search to hire someone to fill it.

The chairperson will develop ways to train physicians and theologians on a wide range of sexual health issues that include contraception, rape prevention, unintended pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases.

The chair will report to Dr. David Satcher, a former U.S. Surgeon General who issued a controversial report on sexual health in 2001. Satcher is now a Morehouse administrator.

1 comment:

  1. This could be a good thing. I hope that it will be based on science and research and not on someone's political agenda.

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