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Andrea Hayes Dixon was the 1st Black woman to become a pediatric surgeon.
Biography
Recently inducted into the National Academy of Medicine Howard University College of Medicine Dean Andrea Hayes Dixon has blazed trails throughout her career. The first surgeon in the world to perform a high-risk, life-saving procedure in teens with rare forms of abdominal cancer, Hayes Dixon is also president of the American Pediatric Surgical Association and a regent in the American College of Surgeons.