Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin is Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University. He served from 1989 to 2006 as the Associate Dean for Student and Minority Affairs at Boston University School of Medicine and served from 1994 to 2006 as Director of the Early Medical School Selection Program (EMSSP) at that same institution.
Dr. Edelin received his undergraduate education at Columbia University in New York City, and his medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. After a tour of duty in the United States Air Force, he received his specialty training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston City Hospital, and became the first African American to become Chief Resident in the history of the department. Five years after completing his residency, Dr. Edelin became Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine. He continued to serve in that capacity until 1989 and during those years also served as Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston City Hospital and Gynecologist-in-Chief at Boston University Hospital and asManaging Director of Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center, the largest provider of primary health care services in Boston’s African American Community.
Dr. Edelin has held many leadership positions within professional organizations and institutions, including serving as Chairman of the Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and as a member of the Board of the Alan Guttmacher Institute. From 1989 to 1992 he was the Chairman of the Board of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Dr. Edelin has published widely in the field of Obstetrics and Gynecology, with special emphasis in the areas of teen pregnancy prevention and substance abuse during pregnancy. He has received the Good Guy Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Medical Association and was named One of America’s Leading Black Doctors by Black Enterprise Magazine.
In August 2007 Dr. Edelin published his critically acclaimed memoir: Broken Justice. A True Story of Race, Sex and Revenge in a Boston Courtroom, which won the Bronze Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Award competition in June 2008.
Dr. Edelin is the 2008 recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood Federation of America .
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