Inspiring story of Dr. Andrea Hayes-Jordan , a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pediatric surgeon whose exemplary expertise will mentor others in the field, as the incoming Head of Pediatric surgery for UNC's Children's Hospital. And yet in 1998, after graduating from Dartmouth College Medical School, she was rejected several times when she applied for pediatric surgery residencies. When her mentor stepped in to find out why, the answer was, "We can't take a chance on a black woman." Hayes-Jordan got her training in Toronto, and in 2002 became the first black, female, board-certified pediatric surgeon in the U.S. She also became the first surgeon in the world to attempt an exhausting procedure to physically remove hundreds of tumors from a child's abdomen. That procedure has quadrupled the survival rate of a previously deadly childhood cancer. Thank you, Lena Tillett of WRAL for your report about Dr. Hayes Jordan. #pediatrics #neurosurgery #inspiration #medicine #AfricanAmericans https://lnkd.in/erPws7g … …see more