Black History Month - Featuring Black Women Making History 

Black History Month - Featuring Black Women Making History
Today we meet two black women:
Alexa Canady who specialized in pediatric neurosurgery, becoming the first black woman to become a neurosurgeon. She was the chief of neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital in Michigan and in addition to surgery, she also conducted research and was a professor of neurosurgery at Wayne State University. In 1989, Canady was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, and in 1993 she also received the American Medical Women's Association President's Award. She also invented a device to treat fluid build-up in the brain.
Juliet Daniel is a Barbadian-born Canadian biology professor at McMaster University, where her research focuses on cancer biology. Daniel is recognized in the cancer biology field for the discovery and naming of the gene Kaiso, and is the recipient of several prestigious awards in recognition of her research and leadership, including an Ontario Premier Research Excellence Award and a Vice-Chancellor Award from the University of the West Indies.