02/19/2026
This Black History Month, we honor trailblazers who transformed medicine by pairing excellence with a deep commitment to serving those most often overlooked. From caring for formerly enslaved families, to advancing mental health and neuroscience, to dismantling injustice through truth and science, their legacies inspire and remind us that the healing profession has the ability to change not only individual lives, but unjust systems.
And we have to admit...it was hard to only pick three!