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Board Member Profiles
B. Waine Kong, Ph.D. JD
President HIC Foundation
Dr. Kong was born at Kingston Jubilee Hospital in Kingston but grew up in St. Elizabeth until he was fourteen when he migrated to the United States . He returned to Jamaica in 2008.
Among his awards are: Chairman’s Award (American Heart Association/Howard County);Leadership in Public Health (Centers for Disease Control/CDC); Health Promotion (American Legacy Magazine); Humanitarian Service Award (Simpson College); Father of Church High Blood Pressure Programs (Maryland Association of Blood Pressure Measurement Specialists); Distinguished Research Award (International Society on Hypertension in Blacks); Leadership in Public Health (COSEHC).
Dr. Kong has been a college professor, a hospital administrator, director of a medical research center and between 1986 and 2008, served as the CEO of the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) based in Atlanta . He has dedicated a great deal of my life trying to reduce the ravages of heart disease, diabetes and stroke. He and Dr. Elijah Saunders pioneered several community outreach efforts including the first to organize churches as health promotion centers starting in 1979. He developed the “Community Health Advocates” as well as the Barbershop and Beauty salon blood pressure control programs. But he is most known for coining the mantra: “Children should know their grandparents so they will become great grandparents”.
He received his B.A. from Simpson College (1967), an M.A. from American University (1970), and my AGS in rehabilitation (1974) from the University of Maryland , and a Ph.D. from Walden (1977) in educational psychology. He is also a lawyer having received a JD from Dickinson School of Law and passing the Georgia in 1990. Bar University