A conversation with Morehouse School of Medicine’s James Lillard and Portal Innovation’s John Flavin

Date: October 25th, 9:30am – 11:30am
Location: Constellations
135 Auburn Avenue, 2nd Floor
Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Join Portal Innovations for a conversation about how one medical school gives wings to the type of discovery and innovation that is challenging the status quo in medical breakthroughs and impacting patient outcomes by embracing and affirming diverse talent.

Microbiologist and immunologist James Lillard is the Senior Associate Dean of Research, Innovation and Commercialization at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), one of Atlanta’s top research institutions. This free-standing, community-based medical school is one of only four Historically Black Medical Schools with enrollment of nearly 1,000 graduate students in Medicine, Public Health, and Biomedical Sciences, and Health Informatics and boasts the #1 Ranked online MS in Biotechnology program in the nation. With a mission that includes increasing the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, MSM attracts, educates, trains, and fosters biomedical and healthcare talent that oftentimes approaches scientific and healthcare hurdles with unique perspectives that ultimately lend to unique solutions that would otherwise be dismissed.