Dr. Charles Richard Drew
He was a renowned surgeon, teacher, and researcher. He was responsible
for founding two of the world’s largest blood banks. Because of
his research into the storage and shipment of blood plasma—blood
without cells—he is credited with saving the lives of hundreds
of Britains during World War II. He was director of the first American
Red Cross effort to collect and bank blood on a large scale. In 1942,
a year after he was made a diplomat of surgery by the American Board
of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University, he became the first African
American surgeon to serve as an examiner on the board.
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