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.

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.

Politicians, Chao, Elaine L.

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