CULTURETECHLENSMyra Adele Logan
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Myra Adele Logan (1908–1977) was a Harlem Hospital surgeon who in 1943 became the first woman to perform open-heart surgery — a bypass operation that was only the ninth of its kind in the world. Working in Louis T. Wright's Harlem Hospital circle, she also published early research on the antibiotic Aureomycin and on detecting breast cancer by X-ray. In 1951 she became the first African American woman elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
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Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged health pioneers packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/health/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Physician — surgeon (Harlem Hospital, New York) · Staged encyclopedia cross-reference: CTL-ENC-000310 — CTL-ENC-MYRA-ADELE-LOGAN-2026-10-29.md (ctl-encyclopedia-black-medicine-2026-10-29 (staged, unpublished)). A staged Black Medicine encyclopedia entry already covers this person; this graph record is staged to pair with it at the merge gate. The staged entry itself is NOT published by this merge. · Photo: Photo: Joe Covello (for Black Star) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis-T-Wright-colleagues-Harlem-Hospital-NY.jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6726. · Photo size note (as staged): Largest original available on Wikimedia Commons is 630x420; below the 1200px long-edge preference — used as-is, never upscaled.
Sources
- Wikipedia, 'Myra Adele Logan' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra_Adele_Logan
- countway.harvard.edu — https://countway.harvard.edu/news/women-medicine-month-myra-logan
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