Frank L DouglasFrank L. Douglas Ph.D., M.D. is the Founder and CEO of Safe Haven Dialogues. Prior to establishing Safe Haven Dialogues, he had spent many years as a leader in Global Pharmaceutical companies where he led teams of scientists that discovered, develope and/or brought to market more than 25 drugs for the treatment of diseases such as Diabetes, Hypertension and Cancer. He was also a Professor at the University of Akron, the University of Chicago Medical School and a Professor of the Practice in several departments at MIT, where he was founder of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation.In 2018, he published his Memoirs, entitled, Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream. In his Memoirs, Dr. Douglas describes his childhood growing up in poor circumstances in Guyana and the transition to dealing with racism in academia and industry in the United States. He was the first Black to be a member of the Board of Management of a Global Pharmaceutical company. He has received many awards including The Black History Makers Award (2007) and the University of the West Indies' Luminary Award. Dr. Douglas received a Bachelor of Science from Lehigh university and a Ph.D. and M.D. from Cornell university.He performed his residency in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and a Fellowship in Neuroendocrinology at the National Institutes of Health. Read More Read Less