On Thursday, March 31, please come and hear Marvin Dulaney, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington, speak about Dismantling Segregation at St. Paul Hospital: June 1954. The presentation will be held from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in the UT Southwestern Medical Center’s McDermott Lecture Hall (Room D1.602). Everyone is welcome to attend, and pre-registration is not required. A light lunch will be served.
A nationally recognized historian and expert on African-American history in Dallas, Dr. Dulaney will re-examine this turning point in 1954, when St. Paul Hospital became the first local hospital to open its doors to Black physicians. The presentation is co-sponsored by the UT Southwestern Library and the UT Southwestern Office of Faculty Diversity & Development. The host for the event will be Byron Cryer, M.D., Associate Dean for Faculty Diversity & Development, and the event will be moderated by James Hopkins, Ph.D., Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of History, Southern Methodist University.
Dr. Dulaney teaches American history, African-American history, public history, and the history of the American Civil Rights Movement in UTA’s undergraduate and graduate history programs. From 1985-1994, he served as the Curator of History with the Dallas Museum of African-American Life and Culture. He has published scholarly articles and reviews in the Journal of Negro History, Civil War History, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, The Houston Review, The Historian, Pacific Historical Review, Texas Journal of Ideas, History and Culture, Legacies, Encyclopedia of African-American Civil Rights, Locus, The Georgia Historical Quarterly, The New Handbook of Texas, Our Texas, African Americans: Their History, The South Carolina Encyclopedia, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and The African American Experience in Texas History: An Anthology. He is a graduate of Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in history, magna cum laude. He earned his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in American and African-American history at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. Hopkins is a specialist in modern British social and intellectual history, studying at the University of Oklahoma, Cambridge University, and the University of Texas at Austin where he received his Ph.D. He is the author of two books, the more recent of which is Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil War (Stanford, 1998, 2000). In 1998 he was inducted into the SMU’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers. In 2001 he was named the university’s outstanding scholar/teacher. Dr. Hopkins has served two terms as chair of the Clements Department of History at SMU.
Dr. Cryer assists UT Southwestern in recruiting and retaining the very best faculty and promoting the careers of women and underrepresented minorities. From 1997 to 2010, he held the position of Associate Dean for Minority Student Affairs for UT Southwestern Medical School. In this capacity, he assisted the medical school in its recruitment of medical students and focused on diversity initiatives consistent with the medical school’s mission-based goals. In his professional capacity as a physician investigator, Dr. Cryer is a gastroenterologist with investigational interests in peptic ulcer disease. Dr. Cryer obtained his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his M.D. degree from Baylor College of Medicine, where he also obtained his internal medicine residency training. He obtained his gastroenterology fellowship training at UT Southwestern where he became a member of the gastroenterology faculty and is now the John C. Vanatta III Professor of Internal Medicine.

On Tuesday, March 29, you are invited to hear Becky Sykes, President, Dallas Women’s Foundation, present “Gendering the Texas Budget: State Priorities as if Women and Children Mattered” from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in the McDermott Lecture Hall (Room D1.602). Everyone is welcome to attend, and pre-registration is not necessary. A light lunch will be served.
This forum is co-sponsored by the Library, Women in Science and Medicine Advisory Committee, University of Texas School of Public Health/Dallas Regional Campus, UT Southwestern Department of Psychiatry, and other campus organizations. The host for the event will be Patrice Vaeth, Dr.P.H., professor of health promotion and behavioral science, UT School of Public Health.
Sykes and her colleagues at the Foundation, along with researchers from the Center for Public Policy Priorities, have prepared a gender responsive analysis of the current year Texas budget. This analysis examines the state’s $182.5 billion budget through a gender lens, focusing on the impact of fiscal policy on the health, safety, education, and economic security of women and girls in Texas.
With the legislature contemplating significant cutbacks in health and human services funding, this innovative look at the state budget provides fresh insights into tough policy questions. For example, Sykes’s carefully documented analysis reveals that “women and girls in Texas have, at every stage of life, among the worst health care access in the U.S. Overall, 23 percent of Texas females have no health insurance, putting the state at 50th in the nation in terms of access to health care.”
Sykes was named President and CEO of the Dallas Women’s Foundation in March 1999 after a lifetime of civic leadership, including years with the Dallas League of Women Voters, Junior League, and City of Dallas Planning Commission. It is now the largest of the 150 women’s foundations around the world. The Foundation grants more than $2 million annually to local programs that benefit women and girls. She is a trustee of Austin College in Sherman, Texas, where she was honored with a Distinguished Alum Award. She has also received the Athena Award from the Dallas Regional Chamber, as well as other recognitions. She is on the Advisory Council of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the University of Indiana.
Patrice Vaeth, Dr.P.H., is assistant professor of health promotion and behavioral sciences at the UT School of Public Health/Dallas Regional Campus. She received her doctorate of public health from the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Vaeth also completed NIH-funded fellowships in alcohol epidemiology and cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Her research interests include gender and ethnic disparities in health and alcohol epidemiology.
For information, contact John Fullinwider by email at john.fullinwider@utsouthwestern.edu or by phone at 214-648-3801.