The Top 21: Our List of Outstanding Black Doctors
Dr. Keith Black is a world-renowned neurosurgeon, scientist and leading researcher in the field of cancer treatment. In 2007 he opened the Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. Brain Tumor Center at Cedars-Sinai, a research center named after his former patient. Time magazine included him in their list of “Heroes of Medicine”, describing him as a surgeon who would operate on tumors other doctors shied away from. In 2009 Black published his autobiography entitled Brain Surgeon.