Louis W. Sullivan

(HHS) 1989-1993

Louis W. Sullivan
(1933 - )

Louis Sullivan was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He received a bachelor's degree from Morehouse College in 1954, and earned his medical degree from Boston University in 1958. After serving his internship and medical residency, Dr. Sullivan was a fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital (1960-61), and at the Thorndike Memorial Research Laboratories of Harvard Medical School at Boston City Hospital (1961-1964). He was an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School (1963-64), and assistant professor of medicine at Seton Hall College (1964-66). From 1966 to 1975, Dr. Sullivan was a professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. In 1975, he returned to Morehouse College, his alma mater, as professor of biology and medicine; eventually becoming president of The Morehouse School of Medicine in 1985. In 1989, President George Bush appointed Dr. Sullivan Secretary of Health and Human Services, a position he held until 1993.