{"id":1700,"date":"2016-03-03T19:34:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T03:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/extra\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2025-08-25T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:42:08","slug":"dr-mallory-williams-tours-high-schools-visits-wsu-spokaneokane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/campus-community\/dr-mallory-williams-tours-high-schools-visits-wsu-spokaneokane\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mallory Williams tours high schools, visits WSU Spokane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mallory<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Mallory Williams<\/a>, a professor of surgery at the Howard University School of Medicine, visited WSU Spokane this week, toured local high schools and met with members of the WSU Spokane faculty.<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019 connection to Spokane begins with Anne Ledgerwood<\/a>, a mentor of his at Wayne State University. Ledgerwood graduated from Gonzaga University.<\/p>\n

Williams began his day visiting Rogers and North Central high schools in Spokane, talking to students there and touring NC\u2019s Institute of Science and Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He talked about how he became a trauma surgeon, and encouraged students to be persistent, work towards their goals and do what they can to go to college.<\/p>\n

\"Mallory<\/a><\/p>\n

Back at WSU Spokane, Williams gave a guest lecture called \u201cEmulating Eagles: Transforming Modern Diversity Thought in Medical Education.\u201d Williams used eagles as a metaphor because, as he said, they execute at a high level, are provocative mentors and they need superior vision.<\/p>\n

The eagles were seen as the leadership of medical schools, and leadership needs to lead diversity initiatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou gotta open some arms and somebody\u2019s gotta go in and hug you,\u201d Williams said in reference to diversity leadership being a two-way street.<\/p>\n

Williams noted that a lack of diversity is one reason medical the Liaison Committee on Medical Education places schools on probation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a diversity problem in medical education and we have to face that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Here at WSU Spokane,\u00a0Yvette Roubideaux<\/a>, our new associate dean for diversity, inclusion and leadership, is working to help promote diversity and inclusion with events and activities like these.<\/p>\n

Williams\u00a0ended the day with an evening reception where he was able to meet staff and faculty on campus, as well as members of the public.<\/p>\n

As for our emerging medical school, Williams said that the Elson S. College of Medicine<\/a> has a positive future because, as he said it, \u201cYour medical school is so wonderfully named.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams\u2019 visit was in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine Exhibit entitled “Opening Doors: \u00a0Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons.”<\/p>\n

Related:<\/strong> Visiting professor makes an impression<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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