Celebrating Black Excellence with Dr. Darlene Gabeau, Pt II

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We are celebrating Women's History Month by going back to our Happy Hour Live with Dr. Darlene Gabeau to celebrate the contributions of Black women physicians to the world! Dr. Gabeau is the current medical director of radiation oncology at the William E. Kahlert Regional Cancer Center.

The Docs discuss the Black women physicians who have inspired them on their medical journeys: Dr. Vivian Pinn, Dr. Jane Wright, Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston, and Dr. Linda Clayton.

Dr. Vivian Winona Pinn is a pathologist known for her advocacy of women's health issues and concerns, particularly for ensuring that federally funded medical studies include female patients, and well as encouraging women to follow medical and scientific careers. She served as associate director for research on women's health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), concurrently was the inaugural director of NIH's Office of Research on Women's Health.

Dr. Jane Cooke Wright was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon noted for her contributions to chemotherapy. In particular, Wright is credited with developing the technique of using human tissue culture rather than laboratory mice to test the effects of potential drugs on cancer cells.

Dr. Marilyn Hughes Gaston is a physician and researcher. She was the first black woman to direct the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. She is most famous for her work studying sickle cell disease.

Dr. Linda Clayton is an obstetrician and gynecologist and is the first African American woman to be sub-specialty trained in surgical gynecologic oncology. She has extensive experience in enrolling patients onto cancer clinical trials and has conducted biomedical research in laboratory and clinical settings since the early 1980s. She and her husband, Dr. W. Michael Byrd, wrote a two-volume anthology An American Health Dilemma which presents a comprehensive and groundbreaking history and social analysis of race, race relations and the African-American medical and public health experience.

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