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-I will be editing an article about Myra Adele Logan

-my sources will derive from the OU library databases and Google Scholar

-Links to sources I have in mind:

a)Karnes, F. A., & Stephens, K. R. (2002). Young women of achievement: A resource for girls in science, math, and technology. Prometheus Books.

b)Oakes, E. H. (2007). Encyclopedia of world scientists. Infobase Publishing.

Myra Adele Logan (1908–1977) was an African American physician, surgeon and anatomist. She was the first woman to perform open heart surgery.

Myra Adele Logan
Myra Logan, at patient bedside, Harlem Hospital
Born	1908 Tuskegee, Alabama, US
Died	January 13, 1977 New York City, US
Education	New York Medical College Columbia University (MS) Atlanta University (1927)
Known for	first woman to perform open heart surgery
Medical career
Profession	surgeon
Institutions	Harlem Hospital Sydenham Hospital

Myra Adele Logan was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1908 to Warren and Adella Hunt Logan. She was the youngest of eight children. 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. She attended Tuskegee's Laboratory, the Children's house. After graduating with honors from Tuskegee High School, she attended 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 the Walter Gray Crump Scholarship that was exclusively for aiding African American medical students attend New York Medical College a four-year, $10,000 scholarship that allowed her to attend New York Medical College. She graduated in 1933. She interned and did her residency in surgery at the Harlem Hospital in New York.

Logan married painter Charles Alston on April 8, 1944. They met while he was working on a mural project at the Harlem Hospital, where Logan was a medical intern at the time; Logan served as a model for Alston's Modern Medicine, in which she appears as a nurse holding a baby. 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.

Medical career[edit]

Logan became an associate surgeon at Harlem Hospital, where she spent the majority of her medical career. She was also a visiting surgeon at Sydenham Hospital and maintained a private practice. In 1943, she became the first woman to perform open heart surgery in the ninth operation of its kind. She developed her specialty in children's heart surgery, and she worked to develop antibiotics, such as Aureomycin. Logan and a team of doctors treated 25 lymphogranuloma venereum patients with Aureomycin. Aureomycin was shown to reduce gland size of eight Buboes patients after four days of treatment. She later published her results in the Archives of Surgery and Journal of American Medical Surgery. Logan also published her results on Puromycin, tri-ethylene melamine in the A.M.A Archives of Internal Medicine and Acta-Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum journals respectively. In 1951, Logan was elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and was the first African American woman to become a member of this group. During the 1960s, she researched the early detection and treatment of breast cancer. She developed X-ray processes that could more accurately detect differences in tissue density, allowing tumors to be discovered earlier. She was published in a number of medical journals and was one of the first black women to be elected to the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Myra Logan with colleagues at patient bedside, Harlem Hospital, New York, N.Y. From left to right: Dr. Lyndon M. Hill, Dr. Louis T. Wright, Dr. Myra Logan, Dr. Aaron Prigot, unidentified African American woman patient, and unidentified hospital employee.

Logan was a founding partner and treasurer of the Upper Manhattan Medical Group of the Health Insurance Plan, one of the first group practices in the United States. She also worked with the NAACP's Health Committee, the New York State Fair Employment Practices Committee, the National Cancer Committee, the national medical association committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Planned Parenthood. She was a member of the New York State Commission on Discrimination during Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration. In 1944 she resigned from the commission with seven other members after Dewey shelved anti-discrimination legislation they had drafted.

Logan was also an accomplished classical pianist. She retired in 1970 and later served on the New York State Workmen's Compensation Board. She died of lung cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital on January 13, 1977.

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-She was 68 when she died

-joined The Physical-Disability Program of the New York State Workmen's Compensation Board in 1970

-Member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

-Logan's father Warren Logan was the first treasurer and trustee of Tuskegee Institute selected by Booker T. Washington.

-Walter Gray Crump Scholarship: created by Dr. Walter Gray Crump. It was exclusively for supporting African American medical students attend New York Medical College. He served as a trustee at Howard University and Tuskegee Institute. -N. (2018). Walter Gray Crump, M.D. Retrieved April 26, 2019, from https://www.nymc.edu/school-of-medicine-som/som-alum

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