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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."
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.
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.
In 1993, Zeiger joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (JHU) where she established an endocrine surgery practice, endocrine surgery fellowship, and directed a molecular biology laboratory. There she rose to Chief of Endocrine Surgery and Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Fellows.
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.
Antonia Coello Novello (born August 23, 1944) is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as 14th Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993.