The Top 21: Our List of Outstanding Black Doctors

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Dr. Harold P. Freeman has been working to improve minority health for several decades.  In 1979 he established two free breast and cervical cancer screening centers in Harlem to improve the chances of early detection.  He also authored the landmark report, Cancer in the Economically Disadvantaged, which connected the dots between poverty and cancer mortality.  From 1988 to 1989 he served as national president of the American Cancer Society and helped launch the Initiative on Cancer and the Poor.   He is founder and president of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in New York.  Dr. Freeman pioneered the “Patient Navigation Program” which addresses disparities in access to treatment, particularly among poor and uninsured people.  This program was the model for the Patient Navigator and Chronic Disease Prevention Act signed into law by President Bush in June 2005.

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