| News From Transplant Week of May 19, 2002 / Vol. 3 No. 20 |
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Joseph L. Alexander, Performed Army's First Kidney Transplant, Dies |
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Dr. Joseph L. Alexander, 72, a surgeon who achieved many firsts for African Americans and performed the U.S. Army's first kidney transplant, has died in Los Angeles after a brief illness. Joining the Army after graduating from medical school, he won a fellowship to study organ transplants at Harvard in the early days of organ transplantation, and subsequently returned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to head its organ transplant service. After retiring
from the Army, Alexander moved to Los Angeles and joined the Martin
Luther King/Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School, where
he was founding director of King/Drew's Trauma Center and taught
surgery at UCLA School of Medicine. Other sources: Los Angeles Times |
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