General News of Saturday, 6 July 2024
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
All over the world, black women continue to make their mark, with Ghanaian women being no exception, doing marvelous work across the globe deserving of praise and recognition.
One such woman leading the way in one of the best medical and training facilities is Dr. Nancy Abu-Bonsrah, who has become the first Black woman to graduate from the neurosurgery program at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in the USA.
Neurosurgery is the medical specialty which focuses on the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nervous system.
In the 30 years that Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s neurosurgical department has accepted residents, there has never been a black woman among the ranks of the prestigious medical school. Now, that has changed with Dr. Nancy Abu-Bonsrah making history by achieving this extraordinary accomplishment.
According to her X page, Abu-Bonsrah has spent 12 years as resident at the Johns Hopkins Medical School studying in the neurosurgery department.
Abu-Bonsrah lived in Ghana until she was 15 and then moved to the United States. She attended Johns Hopkins Medical School.
“I want to be remembered for serving my community, whether it is through providing quality surgical care or helping mentor the next generation of surgeons. Everything about the match is special. It will be a dream come true,” she told CNN in an earlier interview in 2017.
The neurosurgery program at Johns Hopkins Medical School accepts just two to five residents and is ranked as the second-best medical school in the USA. One of the notable alumni of the school is Dr. Ben Carson, a respected neurosurgeon, academic, and author.
Dr. Ben Carson is known for writing some of the best-selling books. He later entered American politics and served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021 under the Trump administration.
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