Joycelyn Elders - Biography.

Joycelyn Elders - Biography. American physician, educator, and public health advocate Birth August 13, 1933 Place of Schaal, Arkansas Birth Known as An outspoken and sometimes controversial advocate of sex education One of the nation's leading pediatric endocrinologists Career 1952 Graduated from Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas 1960 Received her medical degree from the University of Arkansas Medical School 1967-1976 Taught pediatrics as an assistant, and subsequently associate, professor at the University of Arkansas Medical Center 1976-1987 Taught pediatrics at the University of Arkansas Medical Center 1987-1993 Directed the Arkansas Department of Health 1993-1994 Served as surgeon general of the United States 1994-1998 Taught pediatrics at the University of Arkansas Medical School Did You Elders was asked to resign as surgeon general in 1994 after she remarked in a discussion of sex education that masturbation '...is a part of Know something that perhaps should be taught.' Elders was the first African American, and the second woman, to hold the post of Surgeon General. The first of her family to attend college, Elders received a scholarship to attend Philander Smith College in Little Rock when she was 15 years old. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.