Daniel Hale Williams was a pioneer in surgery and is best known for performing one of the world’s first successful open-heart surgeries in 1893. Born on January 18, 1856, ...

Without antibiotics, adequate anesthesia or many of the tools used in modern-day heart surgery, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams cut a small hole into Cornish’s chest using a scalpel.

In the annals of medical history, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams stands out as a pioneering figure who bravely ventured into the ...

Daniel Hale Williams (18 January 1856 – 4 August 1931) ... He performed this surgery at Provident Hospital, Chicago, on 10 July 1893, a hospital which he founded, ...

As part of Black History Month, 6 News is celebrating the life of an African-American man from Blair County who changed medicine forever. In 1893, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first ...

Often we are negligent and prone to take things for granted — two of which are the ability to attend schools and exceptional health care. That n ...

In 1893, a Black man named Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, affectionately known as “Dr. Dan” performed the first successful open heart surgery in America. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1856, the ...

Five decades after Williams made history, Logan also became the first woman to perform an open heart surgery in 1943. The youngest of eight children, Logan was born in 1908 in Tuskegee, Alabama.

In 1893, a Black man named Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, affectionately known as “Dr. Dan” performed the first successful open heart surgery in America.