Levi Watkins, Jr

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Levi Watkins, born in Parsons, Kansas, on June 13, 1945 is a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. In February 1980, he performed a groundbreaking operation on a 54-year-old California woman who had survived a previous episode of cardiac arrest, by putting in her body an Automatic Implantable Defibrillator (AID), and in 1991 he was named a professor of cardiac surgery, becoming the first African-American person to hold the position at the university.

Author: Orens, Geoff
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2003
Executive changes & profiles, Officials and employees, Cardiologists, Personality profile, Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, Maryland), African American physicians, Heart surgeons, Watkins, Levi

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Elaine L. Chao

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A biography is presented of Elaine L. Chao, the first Asian-American woman to hold the post of United States Secretary of Labor. Taiwanese-born Chao initiated several important reforms as the president of the US charity organization, the United Way, and also held the position of director of the Peace Corps.

Author: Orens, Geoff
Publisher: H.W. Wilson Co.
Publication Name: Current Biography
Subject: History
ISSN: 0011-3344
Year: 2001
Politicians, Chao, Elaine L.

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