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Clive Callender

CTL-E-6733 · Person · physician · 1936–present

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Clive O. Callender (born 1936) is a Howard University transplant surgeon who in 1991 founded the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP), the national campaign that measurably raised organ and tissue donation in minority communities. Trained at Howard and in the pioneering Minnesota transplant program, he returned to build Howard's transplant service. His work joined surgical practice to a decades-long public education effort on donation.

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Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged health pioneers packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/health/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Physician — transplant surgeon (Howard University) · Photo slot: HELD — No file of any kind on Wikimedia Commons under his name (searched 2026-11-02).

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