Dr. Daniel Hale Williams was a medical trailblazer whose life and legacy revolutionized healthcare practices while simultaneously breaking down racial barriers. … More Black History Month: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark’s ground-breaking research on child development and racial prejudice was instrumental to the field of psychology and the desegregation of the American schooling system. … More Black History Month: Dr. Mamie Phipps Clark
Dr. Sophia Bethana Jones was born on May 16th, 1857, in Chatham, Ontario. The town was then known as the “Black Mecca of Canada” with a large Black community, as it was a terminus of the Underground Railroad. Her parents were abolitionists, which was said to inspire Dr. Jones in breaking barriers for marginalized individuals … More Black History Month: Dr. Sophia Bethena Jones
Dr. Miriam Rossi completed both her undergraduate degree and master’s degree at the University of Iowa, specializing in dietetics, nutrition, and biochemistry. She later attended the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, where she was the only Black student in the school’s first graduating class of 1970. Dr. Rossi moved to … More Black History Month: Dr. Miriam Rossi
Did you know that the story behind surgical gloves is a love story? … More The Story of the Gloves of Love
Born and raised in Whitney Pier, Nova Scotia, Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk became the first Black graduate of the Nova Scotia Hospital School of Nursing in 1954. She also went on to earn a postgraduate midwifery diploma and psychiatric nursing certificate, and diploma in adult education. Clotilda is also the only Black President in the history of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Nova Scotia (now known as The College of Registered Nurses of Nova Scotia) to date. … More Black History Month: Clotilda Douglas-Yakimchuk
As one of only four Black students at the University of Toronto’s medical school, in 1955 Dr. J Douglas Salmon graduated and would go on to become president of Scarborough Centenary Hospital’s medical staff, and chief of general surgery – the first black person in Canada to hold these positions. He also became one of the first surgeons in Canada to treat people who were morbidly obese with the then life-changing treatment, gastric bypass surgery. … More Black History Month: Dr. Douglas Salmon
Inspired by her grandmother and spurred on by her family’s experience with typhoid, Dr. June Marion James attended the University of Manitoba with the intention of pursuing a career in medicine. She was the first Black woman to attend the university, and only Black woman of the six women in its medical program in 1963. … More Black History Month: Dr. June Marion James
Dr. Hadal El-Hadi and Dr. Teresa Semalulu are the co-founders of the Black Physicians of Canada organization established in 2020 with a mission to build a community of Black physicians and physicians-in-training, and educate the Canadian health care system about the obstacles that Black physicians frequently encounter. … More Black History Month: Dr. Hadal El-Hadi & Dr. Teresa Semalulu
ommy Douglas implemented the Hospital Services Plan which made hospital services free and available to all. It was the first health care plan of its kind in Canada. This plan inspired the federal government to create one that helped fund hospital-operating costs and diagnostic services all throughout Canada. … More The Story of Tommy Douglas and Hospital Insurance
