Black women are not receiving the health care, or respect, that they deserve. Even as overall health care improves, Black women continue to benefit far less than any other racial…
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#MedMonday with Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett is leading a team of scientists who began first-stage clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine, the first of its kind and the fastest progress toward a possible…
#MedMonday with Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal
🏥🔬 Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal is a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist who was the first scientist to clone HIV and determine the functions of its gene, which helped prove that…
#MedMonday with Susan La Flesche Picotte
🏥🔬 Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American to become a doctor in the United States. Susan was born and grew up on an Indian reservation, which were…
#MedMonday with Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee
👩🏾⚕️ Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee was the first African-American woman to serve as dean of an American medical school. Barbara was born in Detroit and raised in a housing project, facing…
#MedMonday with Joycelyn Elders
👩🏾⚕️ Joycelyn Elders is a pediatrician and public health administration. Joycelyn was the first African American appointed as Surgeon General of the United States in 1993. In 1977, Joycelyn also…
#MedMondays with Cecilia Grierson (1859-1934)
Cecilia Grierson was the first woman to earn a Medical Degree in Argentina, where she struggled to study medicine during a time when women were barred from medical school. Cecilia…
#TBT with Dr. Patricia Bath (1942-2019)
️Dr. Patricia Bath was the first black woman to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first black woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention. Patricia’s patent…
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Frances Oldham Kelsey was a scientist responsible for preventing American sales of thalidomide, which was found to have caused birth defects. Frances graduated from McGill University with her Bachelor of…
#MedMonday with May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist who helped discover grid cells in the brain and won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with her husband, Edvard I. Moser….
#MedMonday with Francoise Barré-Sinoussi
#MedMonday with Francoise Barré-Sinoussi Francoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2008 for her discovery of HIV. Francoise’s studies discovered…
#MedMondays with Dr. Katherine Flores
️Dr. Katherine Flores was born into a family of migrant farm workers in Fresno, California. After witnessing inequalities at an early age, Katherine was determine to make a difference. Katherine…