Dr. LaSalle Lefall, Jr.

LaSalle D. Leffall Jr., a Florida A&M graduate, became a leading cancer surgeon and the first Black president of the American Cancer Society and the American College of Surgeons. He taught generations of physicians at Howard University.

• Chair of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine.
• First African American president of the American Cancer Society and the American College of Surgeons.
• Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 1988.