Two years later, he became one of the first people, and the first African-American, to perform open-heart surgery successfully. He was later appointed surgeon-in-chief at Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C., which treated former slaves.
she became the first woman to perform open-heart surgery. She was also the first African American woman elected a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Her other achievements included the development of the antibiotic Aureomycin, and work on early detection and treatment of breast cancer.Fuller is the first Black psychiatrist and neuropathologist in the US.
He served as a physician and Captain in the Army Medical Corps during World War I, where he applied the smallpox vaccine to soldiers using the intradermal method —which was not common at the time. After the war, he moved to New York City, and in 1919, he became the first African American appointed to the surgical staff at Harlem Hospital.
She was the first Black person to serve a residency for that specialty at New York University and the first Black woman to work as a surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center. But she is mainly known for having invented the laser cataract surgery tool under the patent “Laserphaco Probe” in 1988. She was also the first Black woman to hold a medical patent.