The achievement wasn’t Williams’ only pioneering move ... University School of Medicine in 1978, the number of African American males applying was 1,400,” he says. “Fast forward, by ...

Pioneering surgeon Daniel Hale Williams was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, just before the Civil War. His mother, a mix of African American and Native American heritage, was the daughter of ...

In 1893, Daniel Hale Williams became the first African American on record to perform pericardium successfully (open heart) surgery to repair a knife wound on a young black man, James Cornish ...

Daniel Hale Williams (18 January 1856 – 4 August 1931) was an American surgeon. He was the first African-American cardiologist, and is sometimes attributed with performing the first successful ...

Idlewild — The Idlewild Juneteenth Festival, founded in 2014 and now celebrating its 11th year, will continue to honor the ...

(WJAC) — 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 ...

In 1893, a Black man named Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, affectionately known ... All of this is described in a book titled “African American Healers” by Clinton Cox and edited by Jim Haskins.

I’m thankful to his doctors who caught it, to the surgeon who did such a beautiful job, to the nurses who helped him get back on his feet – and to Daniel Hale Williams, the cardiologist who ...

Without antibiotics, adequate anesthesia or many of the tools used in modern-day heart surgery, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams cut ... the number of African American males applying was 1,400,” he ...