Vivien Thomas followed in the footsteps of other African Americans who made advances in medicine and helped to improve people's lives. Explore the profiles of six pioneers who held themselves to a ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Join us in our first presentation for a program series that will underscore the advancements made by African American people in biomedical and ...

SAN ANTONIO – Long before civil rights and equal opportunity, African-American physicians were caring for San Antonio’s African-American community. “I could not just stop thinking about how courageous ...

Currently, only 5% of doctors in the U.S. are Black. Some medical schools are reporting as much as a 43% increase in African American applicants since the pandemic ...

I am the lead author of a peer-reviewed manuscript that details how U.S. medical school diversity initiatives are leaving us behind. This is a summary of the article, which was published in Academic ...

BALTIMORE -- A child prodigy is conducting cancer research in Baltimore. Alena Analeigh is just 14 years old but she's already a junior at Arizona State University and she's the youngest African ...

The proportion of male African-American medical school graduates reached 57 percent in 1986, but the rate had dropped to 35 percent by 2015, according to the science journal Nature. That decline stems ...

Share on Bluesky. Opens in a new tab or window Share on X. Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window The contributions made by African and Black American medical ...

Dr. Vivien Thomas (1910-1985) was an African-American surgical technician and pioneering figure in medical history whose contributions to the field of heart surgery made an indelible impact. Despite ...

Vivien Thomas followed in the footsteps of other African Americans who made advances in medicine and helped to improve people's lives. Explore the profiles of six pioneers who held themselves to a ...