Inductee Category: <span>Medicine</span>

Dr. Samantha J.F. Deloache

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. 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…

Dr. George Debnam

Shaw University

Dr. Jacqueline M. Walters

Alcorn State University

Dr. Jesse Belmont Barber

Lincoln University of Pennsylvania

Dr. James Densler

James E. Densler, a Savannah State University alumnus, was a pediatric surgeon in Atlanta and one of the first African American pediatric surgeons in…

Dr. Yvonne Thompson Maddox

Virginia Union University

Valerie Montgomery Rice

Valerie Montgomery Rice is president and dean of Morehouse School of Medicine, the first woman to hold that dual role. A reproductive endocrinologist, she…