FAMOUS MEN OF MEDICAL SCIENCE: DR. DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS & CHARLES DREW DR. DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS: His notable achievements as a Cardiac Surgeon helped to revolutionize the field of medicine and humanize its practices. CHARLES DREW: The first Black surgeon to serve as an examiner on the American Board of Surgery. DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS was an African-American cardiologist that performed the first successful open heart surgery. He also founded Provident Hospital, the first non-segregated hospital in the U.S. Dr. Williams was an extraordinary man of incredible talent and merit and his exceptional accomplishments are documented with great care in this inspiring program. Born to 'freed people of color' in 1856, he attended medical school at what is now Northwestern University in Chicago to become a practicing surgeon. His observations that American Blacks were treated as second-class citizens within the medical community, both professionally and as patients, motivated him to establish...