Thomas Alexis LaVeist

Background

LaVeist, Thomas Alexis was born on February 3, 1961 in Brooklyn. Son of William Thomas and Eudora E. (Ramos) LaV.

Education

Bachelor in Sociology, U. Maryland. Eastern Shore, 1984; Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, University of Michigan, 1988; postgraduate, University of Michigan, 1990.

Career

Research associate Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1985-1990; teaching assistant Center for Afro-American Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1986; instructor department sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987; assistant professor department health policy and management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1990; assistant professor department sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1992; faculty associate Hopkins Population Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1993. Member conference organizing committee National Conference on Health Status of Black Americans, Johns Hopkins School Hygiene and Public Health and Meharry Medical College, Baltimore, 1991. Member health subcommittee governor's commission Status of Black Males, Maryland., since 1990.

Participant strategies for improving minority involvementin health services research Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Washington, 1990. Research consultant Walter Reed Army Institute of Research division Preventive Medicine, 1992. Participant Minority Health Careers Academy, Maryland.

Department Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore City Public Schools, 1991, 92. Participant regional minority health planning meeting Agency for Health CarePolicy and Research, Boston, 1992. Grant reviewer office adolescent pregnancy prevention unites states department Health and Human Superior vena cava syndrome, 1992.

Small grant reviewer Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, since 1992. Keynote speaker scholarship award banquet Randolph Evans Foundation, 1993.

Achievements

• Thomas Alexis LaVeist has been listed as a noteworthy Sociologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member APHA (delegate to Cuba 1993), American Sociological Association, Association Black Sociologists (session organizer for panel on medical sociology 1991), Population Association American, Gerontological Society American.

Interests

• Avocations: basketball, golf, music.

Connections

Children: David Thomas Ambee, Naomi Julitte Kai.

Father:

William Thomas LaV.

Mother:

Eudora E. (Ramos) LaV.

child:

Naomi Julitte Kai LaVeist

child:

David Thomas Ambee LaVeist