Dr. Clarence Greene became the first African-American certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery on October 22, 1953. He was highly respected for his work and involvement in several medical organizations.
Clarence Sumner Greene was born on December 26, 1901, in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Dunbar High School in 1920 and shortly after, pursued a career in dentistry. He was one of the first African-Americans to receive the D.D.S. degree when he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1926.
However, after a year of dental practice, he decided that dentistry did not adequately fulfill him. Therefore, he pursued premedical education at Harvard College from 1927 to 1929. In 1932, he returned to the University of Pennsylvania to complete the requirements for an A.B. degree and was accepted into the Howard University College of Medicine that same year
Dr. Greene went on to receive his M.D. with distinction from the Howard University College of Medicine in 1936. After seven years of general surgery residency and four years as a professor of surgery at Howard University, he was granted the opportunity by the legendary Wilder G. Penfield to train in neurosurgery at the world-renowned Montreal Neurological Institute.
On October 22, 1953, Dr. Greene became the first African-American certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. He was also appointed as chair of neurosurgery at Howard University, where he successfully treated intracranial aneurysms, brain tumors, and herniated intervertebral discs.
In 1938, Dr. Greene’s became a diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners. Five years later, he became the eighth African-American, and the first from Howard University, to be certified by the American Board of Surgery. He was also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the National Medical Association, the Charles R. Drew Society, the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, and the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia. He died in 1957.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17277696
http://www.drwoodymc.com/(11)CSG.pdf
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Howard University has had a dental school since 1881 and Meharry Medical College has had a dental school since since 1886, so Dr. Greene definitely wasn’t one of the first African-American dentists in the US. Maybe from the University of Pennsylvania.
He died far too young, but his son, Clarence S. Greene, Jr, is a pediatric neurosurgeon in practice today.
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