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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]
Sophia B. Jones was a Canadian-born American medical doctor, who founded the nursing program at Spelman College. She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School and the first black faculty member at Spelman. [24] M. Mary Mahoney was the first African-American to graduate from nursing training, graduating ...
Alice Woodby McKane (1865– 6 March 1948) [1] was the first woman to work as a medical doctor in Savannah, Georgia. [2] She was not only known as a physician but also as a politician and an author. She and her husband Cornelius McKane contributed an important part in medical history.
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 ...
Augusta taught anatomy in the recently organized medical department at Howard University from November 8, 1868, to July 1877, becoming the first African American appointed to the faculty of the school and also of any medical college in the U.S. He received honorary degrees of M.D. in 1869 and A.M. in 1871 from Howard in recognition of his ...
Thomas M. Morgan, "The education and medical practice of Dr. James McCune Smith (1813-1865), first black American to hold a medical degree", Journal of the National Medical Association. 2003 Jul; 95(7):603-14, full text. Kevin O'Reilly, "New recognition for first black U.S. doctor with medical degree", American Medical News, November 8, 2010.
With his wife Alice Woodby McKane, he founded medical schools and hospitals in Savannah, Georgia and Monrovia, Liberia. [1] The descendant of an African king, he was urged by his grandmother to return to his African roots to help his people. Upon his family's return to the United States, the Doctors McKane founded a hospital for African-Americans.
Alexander Hanson Darnes [1] (c. 1840 – February 11, 1894) was the first African-American physician in Jacksonville, Florida, and the second in the state.Born into slavery in St. Augustine, Florida, as a young man he served as a valet to Edmund Kirby Smith, the son of his owner, Judge Joseph Lee Smith.