Member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine, a fellow in the American College of Surgeons, and an active participant in the National Medical Association. Served for 28 years as Vice President and Medical Director for North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., the largest African-American managed insurer in the country. Served as Adjunct Clinical Professor of Surgery at Duke and Director of Student Health at North Carolina Central University. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1833-) Rebecca Crumpler devoted her life to improving health in the black community through research and clinical work. Both extraordinary women in medicine, who were truly trailblazers in their own right. This led to the closing of both Watts and Lincoln hospitals. Thanks to those who pointed out that there's some historical dispute about whether the woman in this photo is Rebecca Lee Crumpler, MD or esteemed nurse Mary Mahoney. Worked to prepare Lincoln's interns and residents for board certification and convinced Duke University Medical School to oversee Lincoln's training program so that students could get board certified.įought along with other community leaders for the creation of one integrated public health care facility, Durham Regional Hospital, built in Durham in 1967. Affiliations 1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Lincoln was one of the few American hospitals at the time that granted surgical privileges to African-American physicians.Ĭompleted his surgical training at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, DC under the tutelage of Dr. Joined the staff of Lincoln Hospital as Chief of Surgery in 1950. Crumpler and Arthur, who was buried next to her, headstones 125 years after her death, in 2020, those headstones were. In 2019, a fund-raising campaign was started to give both Dr. She was buried in Fairview Cemetery in the Hyde Park neighborhood without a headstone.
#MARY ELIZA MAHONEY AND REBECCA LEE CRUMPLER FREE#
Played key role in founding Lincoln Community Health Center, a free standing clinic, which served people regardless of their ability to pay. Rebecca Lee Crumpler died of fibroid tumors on March 9, 1895, at age 64. He broke racial barriers when he pushed for certification of black medical students.įirst African American to be certified by a surgical specialty board in North Carolina. According to the American Nurses Association website, today, the Mary Mahoney Award is bestowed biennially in recognition of significant contributions in interracial relationships. Watts spent more than 50 years advocating for civil and human rights and for the quality of medical care for all residents of Durham, especially the poor and underserved. When the NACGN merged with the American Nurses Association in 1951, the award was continued.
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