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
Inventor of the Laserphaco Probe for cataract surgery. … More Black History Month: Dr. Patricia Bath
First Black director of public health in Ontario and founder of the Sickle Cell Association of Ontario. … More Black History Month: Lillie Johnson
First Black nurse to practise in public health. … More Black History Month: Bernice Redmon
First Canadian-born Black doctor. … More Black History Month: Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott
First African-American to be an examiner for the American Board of Surgery. First director of the American Red Cross Blood Bank. … More Black History Month: Dr. Charles R. Drew
First African-American physician in the U.S. Army. First Black professor of medicine in the U.S. First Black hospital administrator in the U.S. … More Black History Month: Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta
First African-American to hold a medical degree. … More Black History Month: Dr. James McCune Smith
