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