List of Delta Sigma Theta Sisters - "Delta Girl" - Health and Science

Health and Science

Name Original chapter Notability Reference
Regina Benjamin Gamma Alpha Current United States Surgeon General; Third African-American woman to be appointed Surgeon General; First physician under the age of 40 and First AA woman named to the American Medical Association's Board of Trustees; Former president - Alabama State Medical Association; Recipient of MacArthur Genius Award.
Joycelyn Elders Gamma Gamma United States Surgeon General from September 8, 1993 to December 31, 1994; First African American, and the second woman to be appointed Surgeon General; First African American Resident Pediatrician at the University of Arkansas Medical Center
Audrey F. Manley Honorary Acting Surgeon General of the United States of America from January 1995 to July 1997; Second African-American woman to serve in the capacity of Surgeon General; President of Spelman College, 1997 to 2002.
Alexa Canady Nu First African-American female Neurosurgeon
Joan Higginbotham Unknown An American engineer; Former NASA Astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist; Third African-American female to go into space
Ruth Bates Harris Unknown First Female Deputy Assistant Administrator of NASA
Dorothy Levinia Brown Unknown First African-American female Surgeon in the South; First single woman in Tennessee to adopt a child; First AA woman elected to the Tennessee State Legislature.
May Edwards Chinn New York Alumnae First AA female to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College; One of the First Female AA physicians in New York City; 1st AA woman to intern at Harlem Hospital; 1st female physician to ride with ambulance crews of Harlem Hospital for emergency calls; 1st AA woman, and for several years the only woman, to practice medicine in Harlem; and 1st AA woman to receive admitting privileges at Harlem Hospital.
Gladys B. Dillard, RN Tau First AA nursing graduate of Wayne State University
Karen Drake Beta Gamma Obstetrician/Gynecologist; Attending Physican in the birth of the Iowa McCaughey Septuplets
Juvonda S. Hodge Unknown First African-American female General Surgeon in Mobile, Ala.
Paula R. Newsome Kappa Omicron First African-American female Optometrist to practice in North Carolina; Second African-American female Optometrist licensed by North Carolina; Country's first African American female fellow in the American Academy of Optometry.
Betty Smith Williams Unknown Founder, Charter member & 7th President of the National Black Nurses Association; American Academy of Nursing fellow.
Marie Wright Unknown First woman to receive a dental degree from Meharry Dental College in 1919; One of the founders of the Urban League of Flint, MI; first black employee of the Flint Public Library system

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