Alexa Canady
American physician specializing in neurosurgery · United States · On the map · Doctors · Born 1950 · age 76
Alexa Irene Canady is a retired American neurosurgeon, medical educator, and public health advocate. She was the first African American woman in the United States to become board-certified in neurosurgery.
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Medical Science Building II and Buhl Research Center, University of Michigan Medical Campus, Ann Arbor
Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Troy campus.
Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan - one of the leading academic medical centers in the Midwest.
Old Main building at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
Historic Sacred Heart Hospital building in Pensacola, Florida, completed in 1915 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The National Library of Medicine, NIH campus, Bethesda, MarylandAwards
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In 1987, she was appointed chief of neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital of Michigan, where she served until her retirement in 2001. In addition to her pioneering surgical career, Canady was also a professor at Wayne State University and co-developer of a programmable antisiphon shunt system for the treatment of hydrocephalus.
