CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- It was not that long ago that there were no Black women serving as pediatric surgeons in the United States. Not one. That statistic could still be, if not for one woman's ...

Dr. Kanika Bowen-Jallow, a board-certified pediatric surgeon at Cook Children’s Pediatric Surgery Center in Prosper, TX, is now the ninth Black female pediatric surgeon in the United States, according ...

PROSPER, Texas — Dr. Kanika Bowen-Jallow finished four years of undergraduate school and four years of medical school before she met another Black surgeon. “It wasn’t until I jumped into actually ...

Shriners Hospital for Children in Greenville says its latest addition to the staff is its first female orthopedic pediatric surgeon. “Dr. (Lauren) Leffler is the first woman in our hospital to ...

As the first female African pediatric surgeon to volunteer with Mercy Ships ( ), Dr. Justina Seyi-Olajide is breaking barriers and making history. Not only does she deliver life-changing surgeries, ...

UCSF Children’s Hospital Surgeon-in-Chief Diana Farmer, MD, is profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle, appearing on the front page of the Sunday paper on May 23. The article, now online at SFGate, ...

You can't always choose who operates on you, especially in an emergency, but the sex of your surgeon shouldn't matter, should it? It just may, according to a Canadian study of 1.3 million people. It ...

Female surgeons at a large academic medical center perform less complex surgical procedures than their male counterparts, according to a new study. This study is one of the first to measure the ...

(MENAFN- News.Africa-Wire) FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, October 27, 2025/ -- As the first female African pediatric surgeon to volunteer with Mercy Ships (), Dr. Justina Seyi-Olajide is breaking barriers ...

As the first female African pediatric surgeon to volunteer with Mercy Ships (www.MercyShips.org), Dr. Justina Seyi-Olajide is breaking barriers and making history. Not only does she deliver ...