[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 13]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 19123]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   A TRIBUTE TO DR. SALLYE GRANBERRY

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                          HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, December 7, 2010

  Mr. TOWNS. Madam Speaker, I rise today in recognition of Dr. Sallye 
Granberry.
  Dr. Sallye Cranberry was born in 1958, the first child of Yvonne 
Walker, a single high school graduate from Nashville, Tennessee. She 
was raised in Harlem one block north of the Apollo Theater, and 
attended the Harriet Tubman School, a public elementary school on 127th 
Street. She was awarded a scholarship from the organization A Better 
Chance, to attend Walden, a private school on the upper west side. This 
school ignited a passion in Sallye for the sciences, and encouraged her 
to tutor fellow classmates in the anatomy lab. She graduated from 
Walden in 1976 and won a scholarship to attend Northwestern University 
in Evanston, Illinois. She entered Northwestern as a biology major 
ready to pursue teaching, but graduated in 1980 as a pre-med student, 
after volunteering at Planned Parenthood and realizing her deep 
interest in women's health. She attended Medical School at SUNY Upstate 
Medical Center in Syracuse, NY, and graduated in 1984 to pursue a 
Radiology residency in Brooklyn, New York, at Maimonides Medical 
Center. She was Chief Resident at Maimonides in 1989, and completed a 
Body Imaging fellowship at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York 
City in 1990. She achieved Board Certification in Diagnostic Radiology 
in 1990. She has worked at several hospitals here in Brooklyn, but has 
remained in the public hospital system at Woodhull Medical Center for 
almost 10 years. As a Diagnostic Radiologist, Sallye has pursued her 
interest in women's health through the subspecialties of Mammography 
and Ultrasound.
  Dr. Granberry's dedication to community service started early in her 
life when she joined the Junior Elks Club in Harlem. She volunteered at 
Planned Parenthood while in high school and in college. There she 
learned that there was an urgent need to provide medical care to women, 
especially pregnant teens and women of color. While attending 
Northwestern she joined the sisterhood of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, a 
community service organization. She was one of the founding members of 
One Step Before, a minority student organization composed of premedical 
students. During her medical school training she was a member of UMPA, 
Upstate Medical and Paramedical Association; this minority student 
organization was a precursor of the SNMA, Student National Medical 
Association Chapter in Syracuse, NY.
  Currently Sallye is Vice President of the Medical and Dental Staff at 
Woodhull Medical Center, where she has held office since 2005. She is 
section chief of Mammography and Ultrasound at Woodhull, a position 
that gives her an opportunity to provide excellent care to women of all 
ages, regardless of their ability to pay. She educates her patients to 
promote self-awareness and preventive care.
  Dr. Granberry resides in Canarsie, Brooklyn with her husband Michael 
LaMont and their two teenage sons, Akil and Jawan. She is a member of 
the Radiologic Society of North America, the American Institute of 
Ultrasound in Medicine and the New York Breast Imaging Society. She 
attends church regularly at Church of the Rock in Canarsie and is a 
member of the Schomburg Society in Harlem. She enjoys traveling with 
her family, and attending educational seminars.
  Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to join me in recognizing the 
achievements of Dr. Sallye Granberry.

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