Tan-Lucien Mohammed, MD, FACR

20/ Mae C. Jemison, MD

- American engineer, physician & former NASA astronaut
- first Black woman to travel into space
- founded 100 Year Starship, nonprofit educational foundation
- Texas Women's Hall of Fame inductee

#BlackHistoryMonth   #BHM @cornellupress.bsky.social

Stay away from negative people
They have a problem for every solution
- Albert Einstein

#thoughtoftheday
#fridaythought

Truth ☕️

19/ Alexander Thomas Augusta, MD

- first Black professor of medicine in United States
- first Black head of a hospital (Freedmen’s Hospital)
- highest-ranking black officer in Union Army during Civil War
- first black officer to be buried Arlington National Cemetery

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

It costs $0.00 to treat someone with respect.

#Thoughtoftheday
#Thursdaythought

Remember, tomorrow is a 15% day…

18/ Marilyn Hughes Gaston, MD

- research led to nat’l #sicklecelldisease screening program
- 1st Black woman to direct Bureau of Primary Health Care in US Health Resources & Services Administration
- 2nd Black woman to serve as asst Surgeon General

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

Someone who celebrates your growth instead of feeling threatened by it.
No connections want to see you win.

Keep those people close.

#ThoughtOfTheDay
#WednesdayThought

May he rest in peace

#RIPJesseJackson

17/ Clive O Callender, MD

- founded the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP)
- founded Howard University Hospital Transplant Center (1974)
- National Minority Donor Awareness Award (2014)

#BlackHistoryMonth  #BHM

Once I care, I don’t leave.
Once I leave, I don’t care.

#Thoughtoftheday
#Tuesdaythought

Another Reviewer 2 meme… 🤣

16/ Myra Adele Logan, MD

- physician, surgeon & anatomist
- first Black woman to perform open heart surgery
- founding partner & treasurer to one of first group practices in US
- one of the first Black women to be elected to @facs.org

#BlackHistoryMonth   #bhm

Erasers are made for those who make mistakes.

Erasers are made for those who are willing to correct their mistakes.

#Thoughtoftheday
#Mondaythought

15/ William E Allen, Jr MD

- first Black certified X-Ray technician
- first Black certified in radiology by American Board of Radiology
- first Black Fellow elected by American College of Radiology
- responsible for first cobalt treatment unit introduced in Western Africa

#BlackHistoryMonth   #BHM

Too many people think that the grass is greener somewhere else but the grass is green where you water it.

#Thoughtoftheday
#Sundaythought

14/ Mildred Fay Jefferson, MD

- first Black woman to graduate from @harvard.edu
- first Black woman to graduate in surgery from Harvard Medical School
- first Black woman to become a member of Boston Surgical Society

#BlackHistoryMonth  #bhm

Happy Friday the 13th and Happy Valentine's Day

Stay Safe !!!

13/ Leonidas H Berry, MD

- pioneer in gastroscopy & endoscopy
- first Black physician to join staff at Michael Reese Hospital
- president of Natl Med Association (1965-66)
- Rudolph Schindler Award from @asgeendo.bsky.social (1977)

#BlackHistoryMonth  #BHM

Never argue with someone who believes their own lies.

#Thoughtoftheday
#Fridaythought

12/ Velma P Scantlebury, MD

- first Black woman transplant surgeon in US
- recipient of Order of Barbados Gold Crown of Merit
- "Gift of Life Award" from @nkf-professionals.bsky.social

#BlackHistoryMonth  #BHM

Remember who checks on you when you get quiet.
These are your people ❤️

#thoughtoftheday
#thursdaythought

Common CT findings and their DDx 🫁

#chestrad
#radiology

@laurengroner.bsky.social
@gbama11.medsky.social
@jclrodrigues.bsky.social

11/ Keith Black, MD
- chairman of neurosurgery & director of Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai
- pioneer in blood-brain barrier chemotherapy
- Time Magazine Hero of #Medicine

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it.

Right is right, even if no one is doing it.

#Thoughtoftheday
#Wednesdaythought

74-Year-Old Woman With Dyspnea, Muscle Weakness, and Rapidly Progressive Bilateral Diffuse Pulmonary Infiltrates

Diagnosis? 🤔

journal.chestnet.org/article/S001...

Cr. @accpchest.bsky.social

#radiology
#pulmsky

@pulmpeeps.bsky.social
@drfurkanufuk.bsky.social

10/ Vivian Penn, MD

- first director of Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) at NIH
- first Black woman to lead US pathology department Howard University
- former president National Medical Association
- first Black woman to deliver keynote address Univ of Virginia

#BlackHistoryMonth  #BHM

Sitting alone is better than walking with the wrong people 🐦‍⬛

#thoughtoftheday
#Tuesdaythought

9/ Claude H. Organ, MD

- second African American president @facs.org
- @facs.org Distinguished Service Award 🥇
- president: Black Academic Surgeons
- editor: Archives in Surgery
- author/co-author > 250 scientific articles & book chapters; 5 books

#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

Happiness - create it yourself

#Thoughtoftheday
#Mondaythought