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Harold Amos was the first Black American microbiologist and the first to become the chair of the Harvard Medical School. He was born in 1918 in Pennsauken, N.J., not too far from Cherry Hill, where his parents had close ties with the Quakers. Harold Amos earned his undergraduate degree from Springfield College in Massachusetts, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Harvard in 1952. After spending time at the Pasteur Institute in Paris on a Fulbright scholarship, he joined the faculty of the Harvard Medical School, where he remained for almost 50 years. During his time in Harvard Medical school Harold amos dedicated his hard work into many minorities and disadvantaged students that pursued their careers in academic medicine and science. By the year of 1983 he became a founding member of the Nation Advisory Committee of the MMFDP that dedicated to improve the opportunities for other minority students. He continued to serve on the board as the National program Director between 1989 to 1993.

The mission of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to improve the health and health care of all Americans. Since its inception, the Foundation has supported efforts to improve the number and quality of minority health care professionals. Recognizing that there was an existing pool of talented minority medical residents who had the potential to become medical school faculty members, and that a critical requirement for success was for those potential academicians to forge links with appropriate mentors who have exemplary track records in producing outstanding medical faculty, the Foundation developed the Minority Medical Faculty Development Program in 1983 (renamed the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, or AMFDP, in 2004 in honor of its first director). ^[1]

There are three key factors that have driven the success of the program: an engaged, committed group of advisors; three levels of mentorship; and attention to the development of an academic career.

The five main parts that made Harold Amos Medical Foundation a great program for many scholars that were identified with the careers of physician-scientists from disadvantaged backgrounds were:

Exposure to more minority faculty will increase the efforts of medical schools, professional associations, specialty societies, and major hospitals to seek additional minority candidates as students, residents, and attending physicians.

They will increase the number of distinguished academic medical school minority faculty who serve as models for minority students.

They will help white faculty and students better understand minority problems and potential and increase the capability of medical schools to provide minority students with counsel and guidance relevant to their particular circumstances.

They will increase the awareness of the importance of providing health care that addresses the particular needs of minority patients in teaching hospitals.

They will strengthen the scientific study of health problems particularly important to minorities.

The papers are arranged are arranged in four series: I. Correspondence files, 1967-2003, undated; II. Minority Faculty Development Program records, 1983-2002, undated; III. Harvard Medical School records, 1949-2002, undated; and IV. Research records, 1968-2001, undated.^[2]

Correspondence files (series I) contains letters relating to Amos’s professional career and activities as a researcher, professor, and advisor to various boards. This includes correspondence related to meetings and conferences, and related travels plans, scientific research, as well as payments for Amos and his employees. The files also contain related drafts of papers and presentations, reprinted journal articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, curriculum vitae, and related materials, sent from peers, colleagues, former students, as well as individuals outside the medical community, including minority high school students interested in the medical or scientific fields. The records further relate to a number of professional organizations with which Amos was closely involved as an advisor or board member, and includes tapes and videocassettes.^[2]

Minority Faculty Development Program records (series II) relate to the Minority Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Johnson Wood Foundation, which was renamed the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program in January 2004. Amos was a founding member of the National Advisory Committee of the Minority Medical Faculty Development Program in 1983, and served as National Program Director between 1989-1993. He remained active with the program until his death. Records include application materials and interviews, meeting minutes, collected fellows’ biographies and curriculum vitae, as well as articles and correspondence relating to the program and similar programs focused on minority medical education and professional development. The series also contains recorded interviews with former fellows on videocassette.^[2]

Harvard Medical School records (series III) relate to Amos’s career as an instructor and then Professor and Chair in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. Papers include correspondence, meeting minutes, memos, expense reports and vouchers, newspaper and magazine articles and scientific journal article reprints relating to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, the Division of Medical Sciences, and Amos’s teaching and administrative duties.^[2]

Research records (series IV) contains materials resulting from Amos’s research completed in his laboratories at Harvard Medical School and Boston University, including laboratory notebooks; raw research data; photographs, radiographs, reel-to-reel tapes, and prints depicting research data and experiments; as well as drafts of papers by Amos and peers and scientific journal article reprints used for research purposes. Research files relate to the study of bacterial metabolism and animal and bacterial virology, including experiments relating to glucose transport, enzyme inductions, NIL cell growth and aminooxyacetate, and cell metabolism. ^[2]

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