Daniel Hale Williams (18 January 1856 – 4 August 1931) was an American surgeon. He was the first African-American cardiologist, and is sometimes attributed with performing the first successful ...

In 1893, a Black man named Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, affectionately known as “Dr. Dan” performed the first successful open heart surgery in America. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1856, the ...

I’m thankful to his doctors who caught it, to the surgeon who did such a beautiful job, to the nurses who helped him get back on his feet – and to Daniel Hale Williams, the cardiologist who ...