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BLACK WOMEN IN MEDICINE

Filmed Participants

  • Dr. Regina Benjamin, Current Surgeon General of the United States.

  • Kristel Carrington, 2012 Yale Medical School Graduate.

  • Dr. Benjamin Carson, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

  • Dr. Jordan Cohen, President Emeritus, Association of American Medical Colleges and Professor.

  • Dr. Lisa Cooper, Professor and Director of the Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Disparities and MacArthur Genius Award recipient.

  • Dr. Joycelyn Elders, first Black woman Surgeon General.

  • Dr. Jennifer Ellis, Cardiothoracic surgeon at Washington Hospital Center.

  • Antonia Francis, 2012 Albany Medical School Graduate.

  • Dr. Lynne Holden, Emergency Medicine Physician in New York City.

  • Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston, First Black Woman to Direct a Public Health Service Bureau.

  • Dr. Camara Jones, Research Director on Social Determinants of Health and Equity in the Division of Adult and Community Health at the CDC.

  • Dr. Camille Jones, Assistant Health Commissioner for the City of Cincinnati.

  • Dr. Clara Jones, Tufts University Faculty and Clinician.

  • Dr. Thomas Laveist, Professor and Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions.

  • Dr. Barbara Ross Lee, first Black Woman to be appointed Dean of an American Medical School.

  • Dr. Aletha Maybank, Assistant Commissioner at NYC Department of Health.

  • Dr. Karen Morris-Priester, mother of five and grandmother who was admitted to Yale Medical School in 2007 at 40 years of age.

  • Dr. Muriel Petioni, 97 year old Physician and Founder of the Women’s Luncheon within the National Medical Association.

  • Dr. Velma Scantlebury, first Black Woman Transplant Surgeon in the United States.

  • Dr. Carol Scott, emergency care physician.

  • Dr. Claudia Thomas, First Black Woman Orthopedic Surgeon.

  • Rashele Yarborough, 2012 Yale Medical School Graduate.

  • "Mentoring in Medicine" National Non-Profit assisting students to enter medical school.

  • Summer Medical and Dental Education Program at Yale University.

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