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Julie Ann Freischlag (born 1955) is an American vascular surgeon and current CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.She was the first female surgeon-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the first female chief of vascular surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Rowena Spencer (July 3, 1922 – May 13, 2014) [1] was an American physician who specialized in pediatric surgery at a time when it was unusual for a female to become a surgeon. She was the first female surgical intern at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the first female appointed to the full-time surgery staff at Louisiana State University, and the ...
Claudia L. Thomas is the first female African-American orthopedic surgeon in the United States. She attended Medical School at Johns Hopkins University.She was the first African-American and woman to be admitted to the Yale Medical Program in orthopedics. [1]
Nancy Abu-Bonsrah is a Ghanaian neurosurgeon who was the first black female to graduate [1] from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's neurosurgery program, the school "where the medical discipline of neurological surgery was founded." [2] She was accepted to train at Johns Hopkins in 2017 [3] and graduated in 2024.
In 2011, Shockney became Director of the Johns Hopkins Cancer Survivorship Programs in addition to being Administrative Director of the Breast Center. She remained in both positions until November 2018, when she retired from the directorships. She continues to serve on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. [32]
After 15 years at Washington University School of Medicine, Lawton was hired as associate chief of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins University for the 2016–17 academic year. [9] On December 1, 2016, Lawton was appointed professor and chief of the Johns Hopkins Division of Cardiac Surgery while continuing to serve as director of the Cardiac ...
Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 [1] – November 26, 1985) [2] was an American laboratory supervisor who, in the 1940s, played a major role in developing a procedure now called the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease) along with surgeon Alfred Blalock and cardiologist Helen B. Taussig. [3]
Sosa received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1994 and went on to complete the Halsted Residency in Surgery at Johns Hopkins in 2001, followed by a fellowship in Surgical Oncology as Assistant Chief of Service in 2002. [6] She was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar from 1996 to 1998.