DHH Diverse Leaders and Various Careers: Health and Medical Sciences

Psychologist.

Canada’s first deaf medical physician who is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine as well as a full-time family physician and maintains a clinic that specializes in chronic pain management. He studied at Yeshiva University of Los Angeles and was instrumental in working with Rabbi Kakon to establish the Yeshiva in Toronto.

Deaf doctor in Ann Arbor, Michigan and a head of the University of Michigan Medical School’s Department of Family Medicine.

OB/GYN Research

Known for research on language deprivation.

First black deaf hospice medical social worker, the first to graduate from Wayne State University Social Worker Program in 1997 with a Master of Social Work degree, and the first black deaf school social worder to work for Detroit Public School.

OB-GYN

Family doctor in Rochester.

Deaf doctor in Rochester.

Dentist.

Radiation Oncology

First deaf American physician who graduated from medical school in 1976.

Veternarian

Family physician in Michigan.

Physician at Clinic for Special Children

Pediatrician.