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McKane traveled to Savannah, Georgia as he had heard of a need for medical doctors to serve the African descended community there. [1] He co-founded the Southern Medical Association with three other doctors in 1892. In 1904, they expanded membership to dentists and pharmacists. [5] He married Dr. Alice Woodby in 1893. [6]
Mary Eliza Mahoney (May 7, 1845 – January 4, 1926) was the first African-American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States.In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.
His influence in South Florida’s medical community runs so deep that in 2007 the Dade County Chapter of the National Medical Association - once a professional group representing black physicians ...
It was the first and one of the few in-patient centers founded to care for African Americans who had tuberculosis, [6] at a time when other hospitals refused black medical experts privileges or staffing positions. [6] Staupers served as Superintendent for the Booker T. Washington Sanatorium from 1920 to 1922. [6]
Dr Dorothy Lavinia Brown [1] (January 7, 1914 – June 13, 2004 [2]), also known as "Dr. D.", [3] was an African-American surgeon, legislator, and teacher.She was the first female surgeon of African-American ancestry from the Southeastern United States.
James Derham [1] (May 2, 1762 [2] —1802?) (also known as James Durham) [3] was an American physician and emancipated slave who was the first African American to formally practice medicine in the United States. [4] Despite practicing medicine he never received an M.D. degree.
Evans enrolled at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1893. [7] She received her M.D. in 1897 and moved to Columbia, South Carolina, where she was the first African-American woman to establish a medical practice in the state. [8]
Edward Craig Mazique (1911–1987) was a pioneer in the medical community especially among African Americans. Edward Craig Mazique was a native of Natchez, Miss. He graduated from Natchez College before leaving Mississippi to pursue an undergraduate degree and graduated from Morehouse College in Georgia, later serving on its board of trustees.