In 1894, Dr. Williams became chief surgeon of Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C., the most prestigious medical post available to African Americans then. There, he made improvements that ...

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However, the reality is a little more complex. James McCune Smith was the first African American to earn a medical degree and practice medicine in the United States. The son of former slaves ...

Enrollment of students who identify as Black, African American, Hispanic, Latino or Spanish has dropped nationally.

IN-PEACE, which provides palliative care integrated with state-of-the-art dementia care to patients with dementia and their caregivers, cut in half the number of emergency department visits and ...

Still, Parkland Health's chief of Anesthesiology recently being elected by his peers as the first African American President of the Medical Staff is a full circle moment. “My role started from a ...

For example, African American, Hispanic and Asian doctors were ... be it in their home communities or in other medical spheres.” Creating a medical workforce reflective of the general population ...

Now 97 and retired, McIntosh was also the first African American to sit on the Florida Board of Medical Examiners, appointed by two governors, Reuben Askew and Bob Graham. "The 2025 class of ...