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Spotlights
Stories of the people who changed children's surgery. Every story lists where it came from.
Black History Month
Black pioneers who changed children's surgery. A new spotlight goes live with each of our Instagram posts.
Black History MonthIkenna OmejeOne of the lead surgeons in a UK-first operation for a girl born with her heart outside her chest.Read
Black History MonthAfua HesseFor over five years in the early 1990s, she was the only paediatric surgeon for the whole of Southern Ghana.Read
Black History MonthMonica LewinThe first general surgeon based at Bustamante Hospital for Children, which opened in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1963.Read
Black History MonthVivien ThomasWith no medical degree, and hired on a janitor's grade, he perfected the first surgical treatment for Tetralogy of Fallot.Read
Coming soon!
First spotlight coming on 12/10
Our Black History Month series starts at 18:00. Follow @uon.childrenssurgery to see each one as it lands.
Next spotlight: at 18:00.
