Myra Adele Logan
African-American physician · United States · On the map · Doctors · Lived 1908 to 1977 · aged 69
Myra Adele Logan is known as the first African American female physician, surgeon, and anatomist to perform a successful open-heart surgery.
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Detail of Charles Alston's Modern Medicine (oil on canvas) in Harlem Hospital, a mural commissioned in 1936 by the WPA. Logan was a medical intern at the hospital then and served as a model for the mural; she appears as a nurse holding a baby.
Myra Logan with colleagues at patient bedside, Harlem Hospital, New York. From left to right: Lyndon M. Hill, Louis T. Wright, Myra Logan, Aaron Prigot, unidentified African-American woman patient, and unidentified hospital employee.About this person
Following this accomplishment, Logan focused her work on children's heart surgery and was involved in the development of the antibiotic Aureomycin which treated bacterial, viral, and rickettsial diseases with the majority of her medical practice done at the Harlem Hospital in New York. Logan attended medical school during the pre-Civil Rights era. The majority of black female physicians in this time period were forced to attend segregated schools.
