Myra Adele Logan Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

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Myra Adele Logan was born on 1908 in Tuskegee, Alabama, US. Discover Myra Adele Logan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Haber, Louis (1979). Women pioneers of science. ISBN 978-0152992026. OCLC 731559034.

Myra Adele Logan (1908 - January 13, 1977) is known as the first African American female physician, surgeon, and anatomist to perform a successful open-heart surgery. 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 had to go to a separatist school away from white women. Earning a medical degree as an African American woman during this time period was extremely difficult from a social standpoint.

Outside of her career, Logan was a renowned classical pianist. After her retirement in 1970 and later served on the New York State Workmen's Compensation Board. On January 13, 1977, Logan died of lung cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital at the age of 68.

In the 1960s, she dedicated her time towards researching treatments for breast cancer which led to the development of x-ray technology processes that detected the differences in tissue density more accurately; this allowed for earlier and easier detection of breast cancer as well as other types of tumors.

While working at Harlem Hospital, Logan met and married painter Charles Alston on April 8, 1944. Alston was working on a mural project at the hospital and he featured Logan as his model for work Modern Medicine. In the oil canvas painting, Logan appears as a nurse holding a baby. The project was intended to combine the fact of there being a lack of African American physicians during this time with the maternal gender role placed on women as well. Alston included her alongside Dr. Louis Wright who was the first African American physician at Harlem Hospital and Louis Pasteur in this work, showcasing the advancement of Western medicine with African American and Caucasian healthcare professionals working side by side.

Logan was committed to social issues despite her busy schedule as a surgeon. During her career, she was a member of the New York State Committee on Discrimination, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Planned Parenthood. During Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, Logan served as a member of the New York State Commission on Discrimination. She and 7 other members resigned from the commission in 1944 when Dewey shelved legislation they drafted in regards to anti-discrimination. In 1970, upon retiring, she served on the New York State Workmen's Compensation Board.

Myra Adele Logan spent the majority of her career as an associate surgeon at the Harlem Hospital. She remained a surgeon past her terms completion. She was also a visiting surgeon at the Sydenham Hospital, and did all this while maintaining her own private practice. In 1943, Logan became the first woman to perform bypass surgery, an open-heart surgical procedure, which was the ninth of its kind in the world at the time. This was when she began dedicating her career towards children's heart surgery alongside developing the antibiotic Aureomycin. In 1951, Logan was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Myra Adele Logan was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1908, to Warren and Adella Hunt Logan. She was the youngest of eight children and sister to Arthur R. Logan. Her mother was college-educated and involved in the suffrage and health care movements. Her father was treasurer and trustee of Tuskegee Institute and the first staff member selected by Booker T. Washington. Logan's primary school education was conducted at Tuskegee's Laboratory, the Children's house. After graduating with honors from Tuskegee High School, she attended a historically black college, Atlanta University, and graduated as valedictorian of her class in 1927. She then moved to New York and attended Columbia University, where she earned her M.S. degree in psychology. She worked for the YWCA in Connecticut before opting for a career in medicine. Logan was the first person to receive a four-year $10,000 Walter Gray Crump Scholarship that was exclusively for aiding African-American medical students to attend New York Medical College. She graduated from medical school in 1933. She was the second female African American intern at Harlem Hospital in New York and did her surgery residency there.