Black History Month in Medicine

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Across
  1. 2. First African American cardiologist who performed first open-heart surgery and founded the first nonsegregated hospital in the US
  2. 3. Dr. Ben Carson performed the first successful operation that separated twins ___ at the back of the head
  3. 6. Charles Drew organized America’s first large scale____ ___ and was a pioneer for blood transfusion and storage
  4. 8. Born as the son of slaves, this person graduated from medical school and built the first Black Hospital in the country
  5. 9. First African American to earn a medical degree. They University of Glasgow in the 1830s when no American university would admit them
  6. 11. First African American female to receive a doctorate degree in psychology
  7. 12. First African American women to serve as US Surgeon General
Down
  1. 1. An African-American woman whose cancer cells were unethically immortalized and is one of the most important cell lines in medical research
  2. 4. First African American to publish a medical textbook and was the first Black professor at Harvard Medical School
  3. 5. First African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the US
  4. 7. Device that detects irregularities in heart rate that was modified by Otis Boykin who created the wire precision resistor making pacemakers more accurate and accessible
  5. 10. Jane Cook Wright created the innovative technique using patient tissue instead of mice in this type of treatment that kills fast growing cells