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Medicine
American Academy for Medical Directors
One Urban Centre, Ste. 648
Tampa, FL 33609
Ph: (813) 287-6000
Michael B. Guthrie M.D., Pres.
American Black Chiropractors Association
1918 E. Grand Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63107
Ph: (314) 531-0615
Dr. Bobby Westbrooks, Dir.
Association of Black Cardiologists
3201 Del Paso Blvd., Ste. 100
Sacramento, CA 95815
Ph: (916) 641-2224
FAX: (916) 641-1034
B. Waine Kong Ph.D., Exec.Dir.
Association of Black Nursing Faculty
5823 Queens Cove
Lisle, IL 60532
Ph: (708) 969-3809
FAX: (708) 969-3895
Sallie Tucker-Allen Ph.D., Exec.Dir.
Association of Haitian Physician Abroad
60 Plaza St.
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Ph: (718) 783-0701
Claude Manigat, Pres.
Auxiliary to the National Medical Association
1012 10th St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
Ph. (202) 371-1674
Mrs. Ruby H. Franks, Adm.Sec.
Islamic Medical Association
4121 Fairview, Ste. 203
Downers Grove, IL 60515
Ph. (708) 852-2122
Khursheed Mallick M.D., Exec.Dir.
National Black Nurses Association
1012 10th St. NW
Washington, DC 20001-4492
Ph: (202) 393-6870
FAX: (202) 347-3808
Sadako S. Holmes, Exec. Officer
National Center for the Advancement of Blacks in the Health Professions
P.O. Box 21121
Detroit, MI 48221
Ph: (313) 345-4480
Free: (800) NCA-BHP6
Della McGraw Goodwin, Pres.
National Medical Association
1012 10th St. NW
Washington, DC 20001
Ph: (202) 347-1895
FAX: (202) 842-3293
National Podiatric Medical Association
c/o Raymond E. Lee, D.P.M.
1638 E. 87th St.
Chicago, IL 60617
Ph: (312) 347-1616
Raymond E. Lee D.P.M, Contact
Science
Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers
P.O. Box 38
Plainfield, In 46168
Ph: (317) 839-8157
Iqbal J. Unus, Coordinator
National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists
PO Box 720157
Houston, TX 77272
Reginal Spiller, Pres.
National Consortium for Graduate Degree Minorities in Science and
Engineering
PO Box 537
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Ph: (219) 287-1097
Fax: (219) 287-1486
National Network of Minority Women in Science
c/o American Association for the Advancement of Science
Directorate for Educ. and Human Resources Programs
1333 H. St. NW
Washington, DC 20005
Ph: (202) 326-6670
Audrey B. Daniel, Coordinator
National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Blacks Chemists
and Chemical Engineers
525 College St. NW
Washington, DC 20059
Ph: (202) 667-1699
FAX: (202) 667-1705
Free:(800) 776-1419
Damon Larry, Dir.
National Society of Black Physicists
Department of Physics
Southern University
Baton Rouge, LA 70810
Ph: (504) 771-4130
Eugene Collins
The Timeline of African American Contributions to Science, Technology and Medicine.
1619 August 20. 20 Africans arrive in Jamestown, Virginia aboard a Dutch ship. They are the 1st blacks to be forcibly settled as involuntary laborersin the North American British Colonies.
1721 Onesimes was the property of a Puritan leader. In 1721 Onesimus developed a cure for the smallpox virus.
1752 Benjamin Banneker, with nothing more than an eighth grade education and a pocket watch he received as a gift to guide him, built a clock completely made of wood.
1792 Benjamin Banneker, self-made astronomer, published his almanac, which offered weather data, tidal information on the Chesapeake Bay, medical remedies, and abolitionist essays.
1834 Henry Blair receives a patent for his invention of a corn-planting machine.
1843 Norbert Rillieux'sdeveloped a method for refining sugar. It consisted of a series of vacuum pans combined in a step-by-step process to make heated evaporated sugar into crystalized granules.
1851 In Philadelphia, the Colored American Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts and Sciences exhibit inventions, paintings, and craftworks by African American artisans.
1853 Elfe was a slave and pharmacist in South Caroline. According to some accounts, he kept a prescription book, last dated 1853, in which he outlined several drugs he created. Apparently, Elfe also sold his concoctions, though little is known about those creations.
1864 Rebecca Lee, one of the first African American female physicians, graduates from New England Female Medical College on March 1.
1872 Elijah McCoyacquired his first patent for his invention of a device that allowed machines to lubricate while still in operation.
1875 Inventor A.P. Ashborne receives a patent for a process for preparation coconut oil for domestic use.
1878 Inventor J. R. Winters develops a fire escape ladder. Inventor W. A. Lavalette receives a patent for a variation on the printing press.
1881 Lewis Howard Latimerand fellow inventor Joseph V. Nichols received a patent for their invention of the first incandescent light bulb with a carbon filament. Prior to this breakthrough, filaments had been made from paper.
1883 The shoe industry is revolutionized by a shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger, who received a patent March 20.
1884 The first African American medical society, the Medico-Chirugical Society of Washington, D.C. is founded April 24. Granville Woodsreceives his first two patents, for a steam boiler furnace and a telephone transmitter.
1885 Sarah Goode receives a patent for a folding cabinet bed.
1890 George Washington Carver, a man born into slavery, enters Simpson College as a freshman and the first African American to attend the college. Carver went on to become one of the most significant Botantist of the Twentieth Century.
1891 On May 4, African American physician Daniel Hale Williamsopens Provident Hospital in Chicago, which includes a school to train black doctors and nurses.
1892 Andrew Beard is granted a patent for his rotary engine. Sarah Boone came up with an idea for a narrow wooden board, with collapsible leg supports and covered with padding. Prior to her ironing board, this task normally required taking a plank and placing it between two chairs or simply using the dining table.
1893 On July 9, 1893 Daniel Hale Williams was the first doctor in the world to perform a successful open-heart operation.
1895 The Fredrick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School for Nurses is founded in Philadelphia. The black National Medical Association is founded in Atlanta, since African American are barred from established medical groups.
1897 Andrew J. Beard invents the "Jenny Coupler," an automatic system for coupling railroad cars.
1900 The Washington Society of Colored Dentists is founded in Washington, D.C., November 14, the first organization for African American in dentistry.
1905 Sarah Breedlove McWilliams(better know as Madame C. J. Walker, founded her hair care company, with several products she developed herself, including her most successful product, the modern hot comb.
1907 In New York, Harlem Hospital opens, a pioneer institution in providing health care for the black community.
1912 Ernest Everret Just, pioneer in the study of cell life and human metabolism is appointed head of Howard's biology department.
1921 Bessie Colemanis the first African American worldwide to become a licensed airplane pilot. Her accreditation is from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale in France.
1923 Garrett A. Morgan, inventor of the gas mask, receives the patent on November 20 for the automatic traffic light, which he sells to General electric for $40,000.
1935 Chemist Percy Julian develops physostogmine, a drug for the treatment of the eye disease glaucoma.
1941 After having established a pioneer blood bank operation at New York City Presbyterian Hospital, Charles R. Drewis named professor of surgery at Howard University. He establishes donor banks in many states to collect blood for the U.S. Armed Forces.
1954 Peter Murray Marshall becomes the president of the New York County Medical Society, making him the first African American to lead a unit of the American Medical Association.
1973 Shirley Ann Jackson becomes the first African American woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in physics.
1980 Levi Watkins, Jr., is the first surgeon to implant an automatic defibrillator in the human heart, a device that corrects arrhythmia, or a failure of the heart to pump properly.
1983 Guion S. Bluford, Jr., participates in a mission of the space shuttle Challenger, making him the first African American in space.
1985 John P. Moon, a pioneer in personal computer technology, is appointed chief of Apple Computer's peripheral devices division, and starts working on the revolutionary new disk for the Macintosh computer.
1987 Mae C. Jemisonis the first African American woman to become a U.S. astronaut.
1988 Bertram O. Fraser-Reid, a biochemist at Duke University, develops and patents a method for linking simple sugars together to form oligasaccharides, compounds that are vitally important in regulating various biological activities.
1992 Mae C. Jemison, becomes first African American woman in space. Edward S. Cooper of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School is the first African American president of the American Heart Association.
1993 Barbara Ross-Lee becomes Dean of Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine at Athens. She is the first African American woman to head a U.S. medical school.
Scholarships Available for African Americans
Medical Scholarships
Aura E. Severinghaus Award
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31 St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001
Baxter Foundation Scholarships
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31 St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001
Franklin C. McLean Award
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
General Hospital No.2 Nurses Alumnae Scholarships
General Hospital No. 2
Nurse Alumnae
PO Box 413657
Kansas City, MO 64141
George Hill Memorial Scholarship Program
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
Henry G. Halladay Awards
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Merit Awards
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
Hugh J. Andersen Memorial Scholarship
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
Irving Graef Memorial Scholarship
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
James H. Robinson, M.D. Memorial Prizes in Surgery
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
James H. Robinson Memorial Prizes
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
Jimmy A. Young Memorial Scholarships
American Respiratory Care Foundation
11030 Ables Lane
Dallas, TX 75229
(214) 243-8892
Fax:(214) 484-2720
Metropolitan Life Foundation Award Program for Academic Excellence in Medicine
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
Minority Achievement Award
American Physical Therapy Association
APTA Awards Program
1111 N. Fairfax St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 684-2782
Fax:(703) 684-7343
MLA Scholarship for Minority Students
Medical Library Association
Six North Michigan Ave., Suite 300
Chicago, IL 60602
NSNA Breakthrough to Nursing Scholarships for Ethnic People of Color
The Foundation of the National Student Nurses' Association, Inc.
555 W. 57th St., Ste. 1325
New York, NY 10019
(212) 581-2215
SBNA Scholarship
Sacramento Black Nurses Association
PO Box 5171
Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 392-8230
William and Charolette Cadbury Award
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
Science Scholarships
AHA Minority Scientist Development Award
American Heart Association
National Center
7320 Greenville Ave.
Dallas, TX 75231
Corporate Sponsored Scholarship for Minority Undergraduate Physics Majors
American Physical Society
336 E. 45th St.
New York, NY 10017-3483
(212) 682-7341
Minority Student Scholarships in Earth, Space, and Marine Sciences
American Geological Institute
4220 King St.
Alexandria, VA 22302-1507
(703) 379-2480
Fax:(703) 379-7563
(800) 336-4764
NAACP Willems Scholarship
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
4805 Mt. Hope Dr.
Baltimore, MD 21215-3297
(410) 358-8900
Fellowships
Medical Fellowships
Clinical Training Fellowship for Registered Nurses
American Nurses Association Ethnic/Racial Minority Fellowships Programs
600 Maryland Ave. SW, Ste. 100 W
Washington, DC 20024-2571
Commonwealth Fund Medical Fellowship Program
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
(212) 714-0933
Fellowship Program in Health Policy and Management for Minority Medical Students
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
(212) 714-0933
National Fellowships/New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation Health
Policy and Management Fellowship Program
National Medical Fellowships
254 W. 31st St., 7th Fl.
New York, NY 10001-2813
Science Fellowships
American Society for Microbiology Predoctoral Fellowships in Micorbiology in
Microbiology for Minority Students
American Society for Microbiology
1325 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20005
AT&T Bell Laboratories Cooperative Research Fellowships for Minorities
AT&T Bell Programs
Special Programs
Crawford Corner Rd., Rm 1E-209
Holmdel, NJ 077-331988
(908) 949-4301
FAX:(908) 949-6800
GEM Master's and Ph.D. Science Fellowships
National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science
PO Box 537
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(219) 289-1097
Fax: (219) 287-1486
IBM Minority Fellowships
International Business Machines
T.J. Watson Research Center
PO Box 218
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
National Physical Science Consortium Fellowships
National Physical Sciences Consortium for Minorities and Women
c/o New Mexico State University
O'Loughlin House
University Blvd.
Box 30001, Dept. 3 NPS
Las Cruces, NM 88003
(505) 646-6037
Fax:(505) 646-6097
NIH Postdoctoral Fellowships Awards for Minority Students
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Bethesda, MD 20892
(301) 496-7137
Fax:(301) 402-3665
Ortho/McNeil Predoctoral Minority Fellowships in Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
American Society for Microbiology
1325 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20005 |
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