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Photos: Morehouse School of Medicine gets grant to fight COVID

A look back at the life and career of Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, president and CEO of the Morehouse School of Medicine.

In her first ten years as president and CEO of the Morehouse School of Medicine, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice has brought fundraising success and has partnered to address Atlanta’s health equity issues for Black patients. (Ben Gray / Ben@BenGray.com)

Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice shows off one of the school's new research labs on the Atlanta campus. (Ben Gray / Ben@BenGray.com)

Dr. Montgomery Rice greets faculty member Dr. Rigobert Lapu after running into him on the Morehouse School of Medicine campus on the first day of class. (Ben Gray / Ben@BenGray.com)

Michael Bloomberg poses with Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice during the announcement of a gift of $175 million for the HBCU medical school. (Contributed by Morehouse School of Medicine)

Dr. Montgomery Rice speaks at the National Medical Association convention in August in New York. (AP Photo/Kena Betancur)

Dr. Montgomery Rice shakes hands with Dr. David Satcher, former surgeon general of the United States, during the inaugural Dr. David Satcher Global Health Equity Summit in Atlanta in 2023. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Dr. Montgomery Rice and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, shake hands after a field roundtable at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlantain 2023. The roundtable, which also featured leaders from other HBCU medical schools, addressed topics such as diversity and improving health outcomes for Black Americans. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

Georgia Dean of the House of Representatives Rep. Calvin Smyre (D-Columbus), left, and Dr. Montgomery Rice, right, have a discussion with Gov. Brian Kemp following a press conference at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta in 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

Dr. Montgomery Rice receives a COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, Dec. 18, in December 2020. (Grady Health)

Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice welcomes the 2019 incoming class during a ceremony in the medical school's auditorium. (BOB ANDRES / ROBERT.ANDRES@AJC.COM)

Jill Biden, center, listens as Dr. Montgomery Rice discusses cancer research during Biden's March 31, 2019 visit to the Morehead School of Medicine campus. (Morehouse School of Medicine)

Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, top center, is captured in a 1978 photo taken during her varsity cheerleading days at Southwest High School in Macon, where she grew up.

Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, pictured in 1979, when she graduated from Southwest High School in Macon. She was named president of the Morehouse School of Medicine in 2014.

A young Valerie Montgomery Rice, pictured second from right, with her mother, grandmother, and sisters. Dr. Rice, formerly executive vice president and dean, was named president of the Morehouse School of Medicine in 2014.

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Credit: Ben Gray for the AJC

In her first ten years as president and CEO of the Morehouse School of Medicine, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice has brought fundraising success and has partnered to address Atlanta’s health equity issues for Black patients. (Ben Gray / Ben@BenGray.com)

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