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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 ...
In 2008, Lawton was promoted to associate professor of surgery [5] and named to the "Best Doctors In America" list for 2008. [6] Two years later, she received a five-year, $1.33 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to fund her research project "Exploitation of the KATP Channel Opener Diazoxide during Cardiac Surgery."
In 1981, she went on to serve as assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore Maryland. [3] In 1991, Thomas earned a position on the Maryland medical Licensure board as a part-time consultant. In 2004, Thomas joined a private practice at the Tri County Orthopedic Center in Leesburg ...
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.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2001 with a B.A. in international relations and economics. U.S. Congressmen Kweisi Mfume received an M.A. from Johns Hopkins in 1984. He has served as U.S. representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district since 2020, a position that he had previously held between 1987 and 1996.
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.
Between 1991 and 1999 she introduced the use of image-guided techniques for minimally invasive surgery at Johns Hopkins. [13] Throughout her career she has been active in developing new technologies for early, less invasive detection of breast cancer [ 14 ] [ 15 ] particularly in women with dense breast tissue.
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]