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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...

Dr. Ruth Marguerite Easterling, a pathologist, worked with William Augustus Hinton, the African American physician who developed the Hinton test for syphilis. She also served...

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...

Dr. Lena Edwards was one of the first African American women to be board-certified as an obstetrician-gynecologist as well as to gain admission to the...