The Top 21: Our List of Outstanding Black Doctors

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Dr. Rosalyn P. Scott is a ground-breaking thoracic surgeon.  She is the first African American woman to be trained in this speciality.  Among her other firsts are the first Mary A. Fraley Fellow at the Texas Heart Institute and first African American woman to be granted membership in the Society of University Surgeons.  She was the founding member of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, as well as the founding member of the Association of Black Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons.  Born in Newark, NJ she didn’t have to travel far for medical inspiration. She was raised in a medical family.  Her father was a dentist and her uncle was a surgeon.  Dr. Scott’s training came early on.  Each Saturday she helped in her father’s office by sterilizing instruments.  Her formal training however, came from the New York University School of Medicine where she graduated in 1974.  Currently she is Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgical Services at Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton, OH.

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