CULTURETECHLENSAlexa Canady
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Alexa Irene Canady (born 1950) became the first African American woman neurosurgeon in the United States, completing her residency at the University of Minnesota in 1981 and board certification in 1984. She served as chief of neurosurgery at Children's Hospital of Michigan from 1987 to 2001, known for a patient-first manner with children and families. She later practiced in Florida and has mentored generations of Black medical students.
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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 — pediatric neurosurgeon (Children's Hospital of Michigan) · Staged encyclopedia cross-reference: CTL-ENC-000313 — CTL-ENC-ALEXA-CANADY-2026-10-29.md (ctl-encyclopedia-black-medicine-2026-10-29 (staged, unpublished)).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: National Institute of Standards and Technology · Public domain · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexa_I._Canady,_M.D.jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6729. · Photo size note (as staged): Largest original available on Wikimedia Commons is 600x750; below the 1200px long-edge preference — used as-is, never upscaled.
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