Alfred Blalock was a surgeon who pioneered corrective heart surgery in newborns and did groudbreaking work related to blood loss and shock.
1899-1964
Ben Carson overcame his troubled youth in inner-city Detroit to become a gifted neurosurgeon famous for his work separating conjoined twins.
1951-
Michael DeBakey was an American cardiovascular surgeon and surgical pioneer.
1908-2008
Abolitionist Martin Robison Delany was both a physician and newspaper editor, and became one of the most influential and successful anti-slavery activists of the 19th century.
1812-1885
Charles Drew was an African-American surgeon who pioneered methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the U.S.
1904-1950
1852-1922
1749-1823
Antonia C. Novello is a former U.S. surgeon general who was the first woman and first person of Latin descent to hold the position.
1944-
Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov studied "conditioned reflex" through an experiment that made hungry dogs salivate at the sound of a dinner bell.
1849-1936
Sam Sheppard was an American physician best known as a homicide suspect in his wife’s murder.
1923-1970
1923-2006
Mary Walker was a physician and women's rights activist who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War.
1832-1919
Daniel Hale Williams was a physician who performed the first known open-heart surgery in the United States and who founded a hospital with an interracial staff.
1856-1931