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Howard University
Charter Day Dinner

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Leslie Luther Alexander 
In Medicine and Professional Service
The Recipient will be presented by Dr. Charles D. Watts Member, Board of Trustees

  Since 1978 a professor of radiology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Leslie Luther Alexander has established a brilliant record in academic medicine in a career than spans the past 30 years. He spent 20 of those years at the Downstate Medical center in Brooklyn, where he rose from the rank of instructor in 1956 to full professor in 1969.
  His publication numbers in excess of 150, and he has made numerous presentations in this country as well as abroad. As a seminar moderator he has traveled to West and East Africa, several European countries, including the Soviet Union; the Mid-East; Hong Kong and China; Australia; and Central and South America.
  A 1952 graduate of Howard's College of Medicine, he earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from New York University in 1947 and 1948, respectively. After a year's internship at Harlem Hospital in New York City, he completed his residency in radiology at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn. Further postgraduate training took him to Columbia University and the University of Minnesota.
  In 1953 he was licensed to practice medicine in both North Carolina and New York State, and from 1956 to 1963 he maintained a private practice in general radiology, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine, concurrent with his academic appointment at Downstate Medical Center. he has held numerous hospital appointments in the New York Metropolitan Area.
  A member of some 40 professional societies, he has been consistently active in, among others, the National Medical Association, serving as assistant editor of its journal since 1970 and from 1969 to 1974 as its treasurer.
  Elected a diplomate in 1957 and a fellow in 1966 of the American College of Radiology, he has served as both its chancellor and vice president, and as a member of various committees. For more than a decade he has served on the Committee on Environmental Health and the Committee of Cancer of the Medical Society of the County of Kings, and he is a past chairman of both committees.
 In 1967 the Howard University Alumni Association awarded him its Distinguished Alumnus Citation, and the Howard University College of Medicine presented him with its Outstanding Alumnus Award for 1978. He is the recipient of several distinguished service awards.
  Born in Kingston, Jamaica, he became a naturalized American citizen at age 10. For nearly four years during the Second World War he served in the United States Army, attaining the rank of First Lieutenant.