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Carl Glennis Roberts
Carl Glennis Roberts, MD (1886–1950) was an American surgeon, gynecologist, and civil right leader, active in Chicago.[2][3] He was one of the first African Americans to be elected to the American College of Surgeons; he was also a former president of the National Medical Association.[4] Early life and familyCarl Glennis Roberts was born on December 15, 1886, in Roberts Settlement in Hamilton County, Indiana.[1] His father Carl Glennis Roberts Sr. (1837–1917) was also born at Roberts Settlement,[1] and his paternal great grandparents from North Carolina had established Roberts Settlement in 1823.[1] His maternal great grandfather was Jack Simpson, a chief of the Choctaw tribe.[1] Roberts graduated from Fairmont High School and Academy, where he attended from 1901 to 1905.[1] EducationHe attended the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery (now Stritch School of Medicine); and Valparaiso University from 1907 to 1911.[1] Roberts was the first Black (or "colored") graduate from the medical school at Valparaiso University.[1] After graduation, he continued his surgical studies at numerous schools, including at the Illinois Post Graduate School of Therapeutics; the Chicago Laboratory of Surgical Techniques; the Chicago Institute of Surgery; the Illinois Post-Graduate School of Operative Surgery; the University of Chicago Medical School (now Pritzker School of Medicine); and the Cook County Hospital Graduate School, Laboratory of Surgical Pathology.[2] CareerIn 1911, after receiving his medical degree, Roberts started a general medical practice and internship at the German American Hospital.[1] During World War I, Roberts organized the first African American sanitary corps for the American Red Cross, where he served as the commandant from 1918 to 1920.[1] At the request of medical chief George Cleveland Hall, Roberts joined Provident Hospital in 1916 as the chairman of gynecology, and maintained this role until 1923; followed by serving as the chairman of surgery starting in 1935.[2] He worked as a gynecologist at Provident Hospital, from 1916 to 1920; as a gynecologist at the German American Hospital from 1918 to 1922; as a surgeon and attending staff at Chicago General Hospital from 1911 to 1928.[2][1] Roberts served in 1925 as the president of the Chicago NAACP.[1] He was the president of the National Medical Association, from 1926 to 1927.[1] Roberts was one of the first African Americans to be certified by the American Board of Surgery.[2][5] Roberts also lectures at white Protestant churches on "racial relationships".[1] DeathHe experienced coronary thrombosis in 1941, and was said to have never fully recovered.[2] Roberts died of a heart attack on January 15, 1950, in Chicago.[2][6] After his death, the National Medical Association held a memorial in his honor at the Hampton Institute (now Hampton University).[7] References
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