held a dedication ceremony for the first Black surgeon, Dr. Walter Carl Gordon Jr. The school renamed its surgical technology lab after Dr. Gordon. He was also the first African American chief of ...

where he remained for the next nine years serving as Head of the Department of Surgery and Chief of Surgery at Freedmen's Hospital. His mission was to “train young African American surgeons who would ...

Harris joined NASA as a clinical scientist and flight surgeon. He remained with the ... which made him the first African ...