Inductee Category: <span>Medicine</span>
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…
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