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Surgeon: Trauma/ACS/SCC | Pop Health & Health Access ChelseaFC | TeamLH | Third Culture Experiment 🇳🇬🇩🇪🇬🇧
📍: The OR/trauma bay, ICU, or on top of a mountain somewhere
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22/ Mae C. Jemison, MD
- American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut
- first Black woman to travel into space
- founded 100 Year Starship, nonprofit educational foundation
- #Texas Women's Hall of Fame inductee
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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I need the adultier adult to take over for a bit.
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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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18/ Rosalyn P Scott, MD
- first Black woman trained in thoracic surgery
- first Black woman to become a member Society of University Surgeons
- Former President, Women in Thoracic Surgery
- Founding member, Black Academic Surgeons
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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Same! And, of course, this administration is setting about firing hundreds of FAA workers.
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What a ridiculous response!
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Just insane.
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Love that for you!
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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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😔
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Superbowl champions!!!
#NFLsky #Eagles #FlyEaglesFly #Philly
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Thank you, I did! 💙
It was a new trail for me and I will definitely be back. No one else for the entire duration, so perfect for peaceful re-centering.
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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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📌
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4/ Alexa Irene Canady, MD
- first Black female neurosurgeon in US
- research led to invention of programmable antisiphon shunt to treat hydrocephalus
- inducted into #Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1989
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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So incredibly sorry. Unfortunately, I too am familiar with the pain of survivorship. My thoughts are with you and all who cared for him.