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.

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 ...

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, ...

There, pioneering African-American physician Daniel Hale Williams both established the first integrated hospital and performed the first successful open-heart surgery.

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 ...

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 ...

Many know the story of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, an African-American cardiologist who became the first surgeon to perform a successful open-heart procedure in the United States. However, the story ...

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