By Jasmine Browley ·Updated October 31, 2023
A Black woman is breaking barriers for other minorities in surgical fields.
Dr. Africa Wallace, director of Thoracic Surgery at Capital Health, was tapped as the president of the Eastern Cardiothoracic Surgical Society (ECTSS) which was founded in 1963. She is first Black woman to hold the role, and also the first of any cardiothoracic surgery society, per a recent new release announcement.
