Inductee Category: <span>Medicine</span>
Dr. Samantha J.F. Deloache
Dr. Samantha Joanna Faye DeLoache is a pharmacist, entrepreneur, and speaker from Orangeburg, South Carolina, and a May 2003 honors graduate of Claflin University,…
Dr. Warren Allen Jones
Warren A. Jones, a 1971 Dillard University graduate, is a family physician, retired Navy Medical Corps captain, and the first African American president of…
Dr. SanYvette Williams-Foy
Dr. SanYvette Williams-Foy of Tuscaloosa earned her B.S. at Alabama A&M in 1983 and her DVM at Tuskegee in 1988. She served as a…
Dr. Dwight D. Perry, Jr.
North Carolina Central University
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…
Dr. Myrna Alexander Nickens
Dr. Myrna E. Alexander Nickens, a Tougaloo College chemistry graduate, is a professor of medicine and cardiologist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.…
Dr. Charlie Bridges
Alcorn State University
Dr. Edith Irby Jones
Edith Irby Jones, a Knoxville College alumna, was the first Black student to attend the University of Arkansas School of Medicine and later the…
Dr. Alvin V. Blount, Jr.
Alvin V. Blount Jr. was a pioneering surgeon and North Carolina A&T alumnus who helped desegregate hospital care in Greensboro. He was a plaintiff…
Dr. Levi Watkins
Levi Watkins, a Tennessee State alumnus, was the Johns Hopkins surgeon who implanted the first automatic defibrillator in a human patient. He also pressed…