Category : Science – Technology

Dr. Joan Reede works to recruit and prepare minority students for jobs in the biomedical professions, and to promote better health care policies for the...

Natalia M. Tanner, M.D. built a long and distinguished career in pediatrics. Associated with both black-owned and operated hospitals as well as majority institutions throughout...

Dr. Maxine Hayes has dedicated her life to teaching and public service, focusing her efforts on disease prevention. “We could save time and work more...

“As one who personally experienced segregated health care,” says Judith Martin Cadore, M.D., “I do not want any of my patients to ever have to...

Grace Marilynn James, M.D., spent her life caring for the African American community of Louisville, Kentucky, who often had little access to regular health care....

Dr. Renee Rosalind Jenkins earned her undergraduate and medical degrees at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. There, as an African American woman in a...

Dr. Clarice Reid began her education in the segregated schools of Birmingham, Alabama, and went on to become director of the Division of Blood Diseases...

Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey’s career combines geriatric medicine and health policy, focusing on disease, disability prevention, and health care issues among minorities. As president and chief...

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...