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.