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ABC FOUNDER - RICHARD ALLEN WILLIAMS, MD |
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| Richard Allen Williams was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He graduated from Harvard University with honors, received his M.D. degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center with distinction, and performed a Cardiology Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Williams has a long list of pioneering accomplishments: He founded the Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc. (ABC) in November 1978 and served as ABC president for the next 10 years. He also authored the pioneering work on diseases affecting the Black population which he published in the 900-page Textbook of Black Related Diseases (1975). An annual scholarship is presented in his name by the ABC to outstanding minority medical students who show promise in medical research and cardiology. In 1987, Dr. Williams established the Minority Health Institute, which is designed to improve health care for Blacks and other minorities. Dr. Williams was named as one of the 100 best doctors in America by Black Enterprise magazine in 2001. Dr. Williams teaches his students to remember the words of the Greek scientist and philsopher Archimedes who said, "Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world." |
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 Dr. Richard Allen established the Minority Health Institutute in 1987 designed to improve health care for Blacks and other minorities. |
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