The Top 21: Our List of Outstanding Black Doctors

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Carolyn Barley Britton, M.D., M.S., is a highly regarded physician, considered an expert in neurovirology and infectious/inflammatory diseases of the nervous system.  She became a trailblazer in 1981 as one of the first physicians to describe the neurological complications of AIDS.  The Alabama native is also considered an authority on progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, a rare viral complication.  Currently, Dr. Britton is an associate professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, and an associate attending at New York Presbyterian Medical Center.  She’s topped several lists of best doctors including those compiled by New York Magazine and Castle Connolly.

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