Thread by @TLHM_MD

Kicking off #BlackHistoryMonth w/ an appreciation thread of physicians:

1/ Charles R. Drew, MD

- American surgeon & researcher
- pioneer in the field of blood transfusions
- developed techniques for blood storage
- first African-American surgeon to examine for @AmCollSurgeons

2/ Vivien Thomas

- cardiac surgery pioneer & lab supervisor who developed procedure used to treat cyanotic heart disease
- supervised surgical labs at Johns Hopkins for 35 yrs
- awarded honorary doctorate & named an instructor of surgery @JohnsHopkins

#BlackHistoryMonth

3/ LaSalle D. LeFall, Jr. MD

- Surgeon, oncologist & medical educator
- first black physician to pursue training in surgical oncology @sloan_kettering
- first black president of @AmericanCancer (1978) & @AmCollSurgeons (1995)

#BlackHistoryMonth   #equanimityunderduress

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

5/ Patricia L Turner, MD, FACS @pturnermd

- first Black woman to lead the @AmCollSurgeons
- Board of Directors of Council of Medical Specialty Societies
- past-chair of AMA Council on Medical Education
- fmr Surgery Residency Program Director @umms

6/ Claude H. Organ, MD

- second Black president of @AmCollSurgeons
- @AmCollSurgeons Distinguished Service Award 🥇
- president: @SocietyofBAS
- editor: Archives of Surgery
- author/co-author > 250 scientific articles & book chapters; 5 books

#BlackHistoryMonth  #BHM

7/ Clive O Callender, MD

- founded the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP)
- founded the @HowardU Hospital Transplant Center (1974)
- National Minority Donor Awareness Award (2014)
#BlackHistoryMonth  #BHM

8/ Andrea Hayes Dixon MD, FACS

- 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, @HUCM2023

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

9/ 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 @VUmedicine

#BlackHistoryMonth  #BHM

10/ 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

12/ Jane C Wright, MD

- first Black woman named associate dean of nationally recognized medical school @nymedcollege
- developed technique administering chemotherapy to human cells
- first woman president #NewYork Cancer Society
- founding member @ASCO

#BlackHistoryMonth  #bhm

12/ LD Britt MD

- first Black awarded endowed chair in surgery major American medical school
- former President @AmCollSurgeons
- @AAMCtoday Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award, highest teaching award in medicine
- @NBMEnow Distinguished Service Award
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

13/ Samuel L. Kountz, MD

- pioneer in renal transplantation
- first Black admitted to @uamshealth
- performed first successful renal transplant b/t two non-twins
- former chair of surgery @sunydownstate

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

14/ 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 @nkf

#BlackHistoryMonth  #BHM

15/ Mildred Fay Jefferson, MD

- first Black woman to graduate from @harvardmed
- first Black woman to graduate in surgery from Harvard Medical School
- first Black woman to become a member of @BostonSurgical

#BlackHistoryMonth  #bhm

16/ Daniel Hale Williams, MD

- first Black to perform successful open heart surgery
- opened nation’s first Black-owned interracial hospital, Provident Hospital
- cofounder @NationalMedAssn
- first Black admitted to & charter member @AmCollSurgeons

#BlackHistoryMonth  #BHM

17/ 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  @Cornell

18/ Leonidas H Berry, MD

- pioneer in gastroscopy & endoscopy
- first Black physician to join staff at Michael Reese Hospital @reese
- president of @NationalMedAssn (1965-66)
- Rudolph Schindler Award from @ASGEendoscopy (1977)

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

19/ 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 @AmCollSurgeons

#BlackHistoryMonth   #bhm

20/ Vivian W Pinn, MD

- first director of Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) at @NIH
- first Black woman to lead US pathology department @HowardU
- former president @NationalMedAssn
- first Black woman to deliver keynote address @UVA

#BlackHistoryMonth    #BHM

21/ Michael V. Drake, MD

- 21st president of @UofCalifornia
- 15th president of @OhioState
- chancellor of @UCIrvine
- vice president for health affairs @UofCalifornia

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

22/ Rosalyn P Scott, MD

- first Black woman trained in thoracic surgery
- first Black woman to become a member @UnivSurg
- Former President, @ests_womenThor
- Founding member, @SocietyofBAS

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

23/ William E Allen, Jr MD

- first Black certified X-Ray technician
- first Black certified in radiology by @ABR_Radiology
- first Black Fellow elected by @RadiologyACR
- responsible for first cobalt treatment unit introduced in Western Africa

#BlackHistoryMonth  #BHM

24/ Beverly G Coleman, MD

- first Black woman elected President of @RadiologyACR
- ACR Board of Chancellors (2014-2020)
- first director of fetal imaging @CHOPRadiology
- Past chair of @NationalMedAssn Section on Radiology and Radiation Oncology.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

25/ Paula A Johnson, MD

- first Black woman president of @Wellesley
- former chief of #cardiology @BrighamWomens
- first Black chief medical resident @BrighamWomens
- first executive director: Mary Connors Center for Women's Health & Gender Biology

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

26/ Rebecca Lee Crumpler

- first Black female #physician in US
- published ‘A Book of Medical Discourses’, one of first publications by female physician
- Rebecca Lee Society: one of first medical societies for African Americans named in her honor

#BlackHistoryMonth  #BHM