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Born November 7, 1950, in Lansing, MI
At the age of 30, Dr. Alexa Canady became the first Black woman neurosurgeon in the United States. In 1975, she completed her medical studies at the University of Michigan with a specialty in pediatric neurosurgery, and she was certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery in 1984. Dr. Canady was chief of neurosurgery at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan from 1987 to 2001. She also conducted research as a professor of neurosurgery at Wayne State University. After partially retiring in 2001, she worked as a part-time surgeon and consultant at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, Florida, until 2012.