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FBI agent in the 1970s
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Dr Helen Octavia Dickens
Dr. Dickens became the first African American woman admitted to American College of Surgeons in 1950.
Dr Helene D Gayle
Assistant surgeon general and rear admiral in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Dr Janet L Mitchell
As a young medical student at Howard University College of Medicine from 1972 to 1976, Janet Mitchell saw patients from some of the poorest neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. Later, from 1976 to 1980, she served both her postgraduate internship and residency at New York’s Harlem Hospital Center. “Working at Harlem and doing almost all of my rotations in medical school at D.C. General Hospital, I said ‘there but by the grace of God—go I.’ I have ever since devoted myself to the underserved and the most disenfranchised.”
Dr Janice Green Douglas
In 1984, Dr. Janice Douglas became the first woman promoted to or appointed to the rank of professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University Medical School.
Dr Jeanne Spurlock
In 1971, Dr. Jeanne Spurlock became the first African American and first woman to receive the Edward A. Strecker M.D. Award.
Dr Jeannette E South-Paul
When Dr. Jeannette E. South-Paul was appointed chair of the University of Pittsburgh department of family medicine in 2001, she became the first woman and the first African American to serve as a permanent department chair at the university.
Dr Justina Ford
Dr. Justina Laurena Ford became the first African American woman to be licensed as a physician in Colorado in 1902.
Dr Margaret Morgan Lawrence
In 1948, Dr. Margaret Lawrence was the first African American to complete a residency at the New York Psychiatric Institute and the first African American trainee to be certified in psychoanalysis at Columbia University’s Columbia Psycoanalytic Center. In 1953, she was the first practicing child psychiatrist in Rockland County, New York and co-founder of the Rockland County Center for Mental Health in New York.
Dr Georgia Rooks Dwelle
In 1900, Dr. Georgia Dwelle was the first Spelman College graduate to attend medical school. In 1920, she established the first obstetrical “lying-in” hospital for African American women in Atlanta. In 1935, she established the first venereal disease clinic for African Americans in Georgia and founded the first “Mother’s Club” for African American women in Georgia.