Dr. Roland T. Smoot, the first African-American faculty member and assistant dean at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, died of apparent heart arrhythmia Wednesday in the hospital’s emergency ...

Known for his work as a cardiologist, Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. was much more than the first person to successfully implant an automatic heart defibrillator– he was a pillar of the Johns Hopkins ...

Pioneering Black physician Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. Pioneering Black physician Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., whose invention of the automatic implantable defibrillator forever changed the world of ...

John Hopkins School of Medicine just admitted its first black woman to the school's neurosurgeon program. A bit of good news to make us all proud! 2025 ...

Dr. Fannie Gaston-Johansson, the first Black woman to earn tenure as a professor at Johns Hopkins University, passed away from congestive heart failure at 84.

When Nancy Abu-Bonsrah matched for a spot in Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s neurological surgery program, she made history. Abu-Bonsrah is the school's first black female neurosurgeon resident.

BALTIMORE — Pioneering Black physician Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., whose invention of the automatic implantable defibrillator forever changed the world of cardiothoracic surgery, died on Saturday ...

Last week, Nancy Abu-Bonsrah got some really good news: She was accepted into the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s neurosurgery residency program — the first black woman to do so ...