Mills' Sports, Race & Society Lecture
Event Details
The Mills’ Sports, Race and Society Lecture Series is excited to feature Dr. Myron Rolle on campus on Thursday, October 8th. A graduate of the nearby Hun School of Princeton, Dr. Rolle currently serves as a Pediatric Neurosurgeon at Nemours Children’s Hospital. He is a Rhodes Scholar, bestselling author, former All-American football player at Florida State, and former NFL player for the Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Dr. Rolle will join Ford Family Director of Athletics John Mack ’00 in conversation to discuss his career journey and ability to balance and achieve his goals as both a high-level athlete and aspiring neurosurgeon, as well as the many ways he continues to positively impact both his medical and local communities.
The lecture, co-sponsored by the Center for African American Studies and Department of Athletics and in partnership with the Princeton Black Pre-Medical Society, will be hosted in McCosh Hall, Room 10 starting at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the entire Princeton community and general public. Please RSVP below.
The Sports, Race and Society Lecture, made possible by the Stephen C. Mills ’81 Fund, aims to bring accomplished speakers to campus to explore the implications and possibilities of uniting sport with the American experiment, the obligation that executives in the governance of sport ought to fulfill to athletes and communities, and the impact of athletes as citizens and influential community members.
PLEASE NOTE: the lecture will not be livestreamed, but we intend to share highlights following.
About the Speaker:
Dr Rolle is a Harvard trained Pediatric Neurosurgeon at Nemours Children’s Hospital. He is a Rhodes Scholar, best selling author, former All-American Florida State University football player, and former National Football League player for the Tennessee Titans and Pittsburgh Steelers. He published the Rolle Scoring System- a public health rating scale used to determine a developing country’s governance around helmet safety to prevent traumatic brain injury. He has been recognized by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons for demonstrating the best operative technique in the reconstruction of upper extremity motor function using intercostal nerve transfers after a traumatic brachial plexus injury.
In his hometown of Orlando, Florida, Dr. Rolle serves on the Board of Directors for Aspire Health Partners – the leading mental health organization in central Florida. He runs voter registration drives for college students at the University of Central Florida. He runs food drives for immigrant families suffering from economic hardship and food insecurity. He builds home libraries, supplies books and book bags for under-served children at the West Lakes Early Learning Center. He runs a head trauma prevention program for pedestrians in high-risk areas of Orlando. He serves as the Low-Income Person’s Advocate on the Orange County Affordable Housing Advisory Board. He volunteers at The Orlando Fisher House for families of hospitalized military veterans. He advocates for improved health equity as a member of the State of Medical City Health Committee.
Globally, Dr. Rolle is the chairman of the Caribbean Neurosurgery Foundation – a not-for-profit which houses capacity-building and health system-strengthening initiatives for improved neurosurgical care in the Caribbean. His foundation has impacted over 3.5 million people in the Caribbean through the upscaling of policy, service delivery, research, and education.
He is the best selling author of The 2% Way – How a philosophy of small improvements took me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery.
Dr. Rolle holds a Doctor of Medicine from Florida State University College of Medicine, a Master of Science in medical anthropology from University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Science in exercise science from Florida State University.
Dr. Rolle is married to pediatric dentist Dr. Latoya Rolle. Together, the two are the proud of parents of two sets of fraternal twins – Zora, Zayed, Zanzi, and Zafar.
