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Gertrude Elizabeth Curtis McPherson in 1904 became the first black woman to pass the New York State Board of Dentistry. [19] Mary E. Merritt became the first African-American licensed nurse in Kentucky. [121] Marie Metoyer in 1951 became the first African American woman to graduate as a medical doctor from Cornell University. [122]
Amy Leigh Acton (née Stearns; born 1965 or 1966) is an American physician and public-health researcher who served as the director of the Ohio Department of Health from 2019–2020.
The Rebecca Lee Society, one of the first medical societies for African-American women, was named in Crumpler's honor. [2] Her home on Joy Street is a stop on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. [41] In 2019, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam declared March 30 (National Doctors Day) the Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day. [4]
It includes African-American physicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "African-American women physicians" The following 165 pages are in this category, out of 165 total.
Clotilde Dent Bowen (March 20, 1923 – March 11, 2011) was a psychiatrist who became the first African-American woman to reach the rank of colonel in the U.S. Army. Bowen was also the first African-American woman to graduate in medicine from Ohio State University (in 1947), the first Black physician to hold a military commission, and the first woman commander of a U.S. military hospital.
Lottie Cornella Isbell Blake, M.D., (10 June 1876 – 16 November 1976) was an American physician, medical missionary, and educator. Blake was the first black Seventh Day Adventist to become a physician.
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It includes physicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Note that everyone in this category should also be placed in a neutral sibling or parent, such as Category:American physicians or one of its sub-categories, such as Category:American physicians by state .