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Famous People in Medicine

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Won the NAACP’s inaugural Spingarn Medal for his research on fertilization and cell division in 1912.
Founded Chicago’s Provident Hospital, the country’s first black-owned, interracial hospital, in 1891. Performed the first-ever successful heart surgery two years later.
While serving in World War I, he developed the intradermal injection vaccination technique. In 1948, became the first clinician to study the use of the drug Aureomycin in humans.
She was an Oncologist. She worked a long side her father Louis T. Wright and together they researched chemotherapy drugs that led to remissions in patients with leukemia and lymphoma. She became the head of the Cancer Research Foundation at age 33.
Developed Hinton Test for diagnosing syphilis and published the first medical textbook by an African American.
Discovered that plasma can replace whole blood transfusions. Founded two of the first blood banks.
First African American to complete an ophthalmology residency with New York University’s School of Medicine, in 1973. She co-found the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness.
Patented 28 electronic devices during his career. He is best known for improving the pacemaker.
Became the first female African American MD in 1864. Treated freed slaves after the Civil War and published one of the first medical books written by an African American.
Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993 as the Surgeon General of the US. She was the first African American and the second woman to hold this post.
Current Surgeon General of the United States of America.
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First African American to earn an MD and practice in the United States. Opened what’s thought to be the country’s first African American-owned pharmacy.
Published a study of sickle-cell anemia that led to a nationwide test for newborns. First African American and female director of a public health bureau – the US Department of Health and Human Service’s Bureau of Primary Health Care.
First Black psychiatrist in the United States. Researched degenerative brain disorders and became an authority on Alzheimer’s Disease research.
She is a trained physician who has dedicated her life to improving global health. She is most famous for becoming the first Black woman astronaut to go into space, in 1992.
Appointed director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, in Baltimore. He is most famous for his surgeries separating conjoined twins in 1987 and 1997.