SAMPSON DAVIS was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He received his bachelor’s degree from Seton Hall University and his medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and he completed his residency in emergency medicine at the same hospital where he was born, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.
Dr. Davis is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and co-author of The New York Times bestsellers The Pact, We Beat the Street, and The Bond. The youngest physician to receive the National Medical Association’s highest honor, the Scroll of Merit, he has also received Essence and BET humanitarian awards, and was named by Essence as one of the forty most inspirational African Americans. He is a founder of The Three Doctors Foundation, focusing on health, education, leadership, and mentoring. Dr. Davis has appeared in various print publications and on numerous national television and radio news and talk shows, including Oprah, the Today show, and The View, and has served as a medical correspondent for CNN and The Tom Joyner Morning Show. He practices emergency medicine in New Jersey.
Dr. Davis is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please email drsampsondavis@gmail.com.
LISA FRAZIER PAGE is a writer living in the New Orleans area. She worked for nearly seventeen years as a reporter and editor at The Washington Post and for a decade as a writer at The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans.
She was a co-writer of the New York Times bestseller The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream, published in 2002. She also collaborated with Carlotta Walls LaNier, the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine, on LaNier’s 2009 memoir, A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School.
Page holds a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and a bachelor’s from Dillard University in New Orleans. She and her husband, Kevin, have four children.