💁🏾‍♀️(Submitted by Imani B. ’20)

✅ 1933- Graduated Valedictorian from Booker T. Washington High School
✅1937-Graduated from Morehouse College Graduate
✅1941- Received M.D. degree from the University of Michigan Medical School
✅1942-1944- Trained under DR. CHARLES DREW at Freedmen’s Hospital at Howard University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
✅1948-1958- Chief of Surgery at the VA Hospital in Tuskegee, Alabama from 1948-1958
✅1958-1972- Chief of Surgery at Grady’s Hughes Spalding Pavilion where he established the first surgical residency program for African Americans in the state of Georgia
✅1964- Became the first African American faculty member at Emory University School of Medicine where he helped establish the Cardiology Center at Emory
✅1966-1976- Sat on the Atlanta Board of Education
✅1972- Named Medical Director of Grady Memorial Hospital as well as Associate Dean at Emory’s School of Medicine.
✅1989- Retired from both Grady Hospital and Emory University

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Photo Cred: Asa G. Yancey papers, circa 1940-2013, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University

Sources: Emory University’s Department of Surgery, The History Makers