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27/ Lonnie R. Bristow, MD
- first Black president of American Medical Assoc (AMA)
- lead introduction of questions on medical ethics into medical board exams
- Award of Excellence from Ca. Med Action Committee
- recipient of California’s Most Distinguished Internist Award
#Blackhistorymonth #BHM
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26/ Andrea Hayes Dixon MD
- first Black, female, board-certified pediatric surgeon
- developed first orthotropic xenograft model of metastatic Ewing's Sarcoma
- American Pediatric Surgical Association's board of directors
- Dean, Howard UniversityCollege of Medicine
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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25/ Solomon Carter Fuller, MD
- pioneer of #Alzheimers disease
- published first comprehensive review of Alzheimer's disease
- Amer Psychiatric Assoc (APA) established a Solomon Carter Fuller Award lecture at its annual meetings
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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19/ Levi Watkins, MD
- first to successfully implant automatic defibrillator in human patient (w/ #VivienThomas)
- groundbreaking research on angiotensin blockers used in CHF
- lecture series on Diversity in Medical Education named after him at Vanderbilt Univ
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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15/ Alexander Thomas Augusta, MD
- first Black professor of medicine in United States
- first Black head of a hospital (Freedmen’s Hospital)
- highest-ranking black officer in Union Army during Civil War
- first black officer to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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13/ Clive O Callender, MD
- founded the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP)
- founded the Howard University Hospital Transplant Center (1974)
- National Minority Donor Awareness Award (2014)
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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12/ Velma P Scantlebury, MD
- first Black woman transplant surgeon in US
- recipient of Order of Barbados Gold Crown of Merit
- "Gift of Life Award" from Natl Kidney Foundation
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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11/ Keith Black, MD
- Chairman of neurosurgery & director of Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute @cedarssinai.bsky.social
- pioneer in blood-brain barrier chemotherapy
- Time Hero of #Medicine
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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She was so excited to be featured!
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❤️❤️❤️❤️
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🙌🏾🙌🏾💃🏾🏆
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10/ Myra Adele Logan, MD
- physician, surgeon & anatomist
- first Black woman to perform open heart surgery
- founding partner & treasurer to one of first group practices in US
- one of the first Black women to be elected to @facs.org
#BlackHistoryMonth #bhm
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Wow 🤩! Enjoy
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8/ Patricia Bath, MD
- ophthalmologist, inventor, humanitarian & academic
- inventor: laser cataract surgery (Lazerphaco Probe)
- first woman member of Jules Stein Eye Institute
- first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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6/ Beverly G Coleman, MD
- first Black woman elected President of Am. Coll Radiology
- ACR Board of Chancellors (2014-2020)
- first director of fetal imaging CHOP
- Past chair of Nat’l Med Association Section on Radiology and Radiation Oncology
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM