Callender, Clive O.
1936-present · Contribution: 1974-present
Organ transplantation surgery and minority organ-donation advocacy; built an early minority-directed dialysis/transplant center and founded a national education program to raise donation rates
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Impact on the world
Founded the Howard University Hospital Transplant Center (1974) and, in 1991, the National Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP), which helped more than double African American organ-donation rates; chaired the Department of Surgery at Howard.
Life & background
African-American transplant surgeon born 1936 in New York City. BS (Hunter College); MD, Meharry Medical College (1963); surgical training at Harlem Hospital and Freedmen's Hospital. Professor of surgery at Howard University College of Medicine; 140+ publications.
Sources
- National MOTTEP; Howard University (The Dig)
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