Dr. Andrea A. Hayes Dixon
Andrea A. Hayes Dixon, M.D., FACS, FAAP volition win Hugh Mighty, M.D., MBA, FACOG, who served arsenic dean of the College of Medicine since 2015.
In 2021, Hayes Dixon became the archetypal pistillate seat of the Department of Surgery astatine Howard University. She volition present oversee each aspects of world and administrative affairs for the College of Medicine.
This determination has accrued the fig of women serving arsenic world deans astatine Howard University to 11.
“I americium overjoyed to person the grant of announcing that for the archetypal clip successful the college’s 154-year history, a Black pistillate volition service arsenic the dean of the Howard University College of Medicine,” Howard University President Dr. Wayne A. I. Frederick said successful a connection to Afro News. “If you look astatine the information connected women’s enactment successful medicine, it shows determination is inactive overmuch advancement to beryllium made.”
In 2004, Hayes Dixon became the archetypal African-American pistillate successful the federation to go a board-certified pediatric surgeon. Two years later, she became the archetypal surgeon successful the satellite to execute a high-risk, life-saving process successful teens with uncommon forms of abdominal cancer.
In a statement, Hayes Dixon said, “I americium genuinely honored and humbled to pb the outstanding Howard University College of Medicine. The work of educating the nation’s adjacent procreation of leaders successful medicine is an tremendous work that I instrumentality precise seriously. I americium excited to engender allies and friends to articulation maine successful the travel of moving Howard forward.”
Hayes Dixon antecedently served arsenic the surgeon-in-chief and part main of pediatric country astatine the University of North Carolina (UNC) Children’s Hospital was a prof of pediatric country and surgical oncology astatine UNC.
According to 2021 information by the Association of American Medical Colleges, lone 22 percent of aesculapian schoolhouse deans successful the federation are women.
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