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WorksheetsBlack American Medical Pioneers
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
African-American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the second documented, successful pericardium surgery in the United States to repair a wound
Daniel Hale Williams
Edward Bouchet
Ernest Everett Just
Percy Julian
Charles H. Turner
African American chemist, who contributed to the science of food preservation. By the end of his career, Hall had amassed 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in other countries.
Lloyd Hall
Percy Julian
St. Elmo Brady
James West
George Carruthers
She was the first Black American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Marie Maynard Daly
Shirley Ann Jackson
Alice Ball
Valerie Thomas
Patricia Bath
African American chemist who developed an inject-able oil extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s.
Alice Ball
Mae C. Jemison
Marie Maynard Daly
Katherine G. Johnson
Valerie Thomas
First African-American woman to become a medical school dean.
Barbara Ross-Lee
Patricia Bath
Valerie Thomas
Mae C. Jemison
Alice Ball
American research biologist, educator, zoologist, and comparative psychologist born in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1892, Turner became the first African American to receive a graduate degree at the University of Cincinnati.
Charles H. Turner
Ernest Everett Just
Edward Bouchet
St. Elmo Brady
James West
African-American who invented the surgical tool that made her famous: the Laserphaco Probe (for cataracts), which she continued to perfect and later patented in 1988.
Patricia Bath
Valarie Thomas
Percy Julian
Lloyd Hall
Charles H. Turner
This woman was admitted to the New England Female Medical College. When she graduated in 1864, she was the first African American woman in the United States to earn an M.D. degree, and the only African American woman to graduate from the New England Female Medical College
Marie Maynard Daly
Shirley Ann Jackson
Mae C. Jemison
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
Patricia Bath
What is Dr. Hale Williams most known for?
Created a medicane to cure a illness
Performed first heart surgery
Opened a hospital
What year did Dr. Daniel Hale Williams perform his first heart surgery?
1893
2003
1804
I went from being a poor student to receiving academic honors and eventually attending medical school. As a doctor, I was director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33 and became famous for separating conjoined twins. Today, I am the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. I am _______.
Dr. Ben Casey
Dr. Patricia M. Bath
Dr. Ben Carson
How was Frederick McKinley Jones's invention was used in War World II?
To keep soldiers cool
To help preserve blood
To keep trains cool
Transport groceries to markets.
What is Charles Drew credited for creating?
Telephone Receiver
Heart Monitors
American Red Cross
Blood Bank
Patricia Bath
invented an instrument that has helped hundreds of thousands of people overcome ______________.
cancer
high blood pressure
cataracts
amnesia
