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 Hopkins to recruit more Black medical students.

Performed the first human implantation of an automatic defibrillator.
Longtime Johns Hopkins cardiac surgeon and diversity advocate.
Inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame in 2004.