Richard N. Scott, M.D. is a cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon, and professor of surgery. He was the first African American surgical intern at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
Dr. Scott received his medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine in 1967. After completing his surgical internship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he went on to complete his general surgery residency at New York University and his cardiovascular thoracic surgery fellowship at George Washington University Medical Center.
During his career he was appointed senior research associate at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health where in 1974, with his associates he developed a new stapling technique for bronchial stump closure following a total lung resection. This technique is now recognized as a standard of care.
Dr. Patricia L. Turner is a general surgeon and adjunct associate professor of surgery at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. She currently serves as the Director of the American College of Surgeons Division of Member Services. Dr. Turner previously held positions as associate professor of surgery and program director for the General Surgery Residency Program at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. Turner has been chair of the Surgical Caucus of the American Medical Association Young Physicians Section, a member of the Editorial Board of Surgical News and a senior staff fellow at the NIH National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism, Bethesda, MD.
Dr. Turner received her medical degree at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, completed her surgical residency at Howard University Hospital, and was a clinical fellow in minimally invasive and laparoscopic surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Weill-Cornell University of Medicine, and Columbia University, New York City.
Dr. Scott was an associate professor of surgery at Morehouse School of Medicine and is a lecturer in the School of Public Health at Morgan State University. He currently holds the position of professor of surgery and physiology at The All Saints University School of Medicine in Aruba. Dr. Scott continues to actively promote screening and prevention of cardiovascular disease among medically challenged communities and mentors minority students for careers in academic surgery.
Page 17