Silver Innovator Award Honoree: Reverend Dr. Derrick C. DeWitt Sr.

The Alliance for Aging Research's Silver Innovator Award is presented to an individual who anticipates and embraces the evolution of high quality research aligned with the needs of older patients. This year's honoree is Reverend Dr. Derrick C. DeWitt Sr.

The Alliance for Aging Research’s annual Heroes in Health celebration took place virtually on Tuesday, September 15, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the first year that the event was held online. This year’s theme was Heroes in Health: An Event to Celebrate Community, Strength and Healthy Aging. The celebration honored individuals for their contributions to advance the experience of aging and recognized those whose outstanding efforts have helped older Americans and those with underlying conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learn more about The Alliance's Heroes in Health event here: https://www.agingresearch.org/event/2020dinner/

Dr. DeWitt is President of the Board of Directors for the Maryland Baptist Aged Home Development Corporation. He is also Chief Finance Officer for the Maryland Baptist Aged Home, President of the Board of Directors for Intersection of Change, Inc., President of the Board of Clergy United for the Transformation of Sandtown-Winchester (CUTS), and moreover, Senior Pastor of First Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Baltimore City. Dr. DeWitt is also an active board member of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Food and Faith Project.

Dr. DeWitt is a high school graduate of Baltimore City College. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (Averett University, Danville, Virginia), and Master and Doctor of Arts Degrees in Theology and Biblical Counseling (Freelandia Bible College and Seminary, Broadway, Virginia).

Dr. DeWitt was licensed to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ in 1989 and ordained in 1991. In 2002, he founded the Garment of Praise Baptist Church in Clinton, Maryland. In 2007, he returned to his native hometown, Baltimore, to pastor First Mount Calvary Baptist Church. In 2014, Dr. DeWitt was inducted into the College of Ministers and Laity at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. DeWitt is a retired military officer with over 30 years of combined military, federal, and private sector non-profit business management experience, and 20 years of experience as an executive level decision-maker with planning, coordination, and priority goal-setting responsibilities.

Dr. DeWitt possesses extraordinary compassion and vision for outreach. His humanitarian efforts largely impact his hometown, as well as abroad to Africa, where he and his wife support orphanages in Kenya and Uganda. His church operates model food programs, a weekly soup kitchen, free summer camps for youth, a weekly addiction ministry, affordable housing, and much more. DeWitt is credited with helping struggling businesses and churches become financially solvent and has become a noted expert in business finance strategies and practices.

Dr. DeWitt is a loving husband to Lady Cassandra DeWitt and a devoted father to Breona, Derrick, II, Everardo, and Anointe’.

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