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Gallery: Alexa I. Canady

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A woman’s portrait wearing glasses and a red jacket with a white shirt.
Surgeon in scrubs, mask, gloves and cap seated at an operating table.
Two people sit while one in scrubs holds up a child.
Illustration of a medical device
Colored crayon drawing of a doctor helping her child patient in a hospital room

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Surgeon in scrubs, mask, gloves and cap seated at an operating table.

Alexa I. Canady, M.D.

Dr. Alexa Canady was the first African American woman in the United States to become a neurosurgeon.


Courtesy Detroit Free Press/Hugh Grannum