Augustus A. White
Augustus A. White | |
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| Born | June 4, 1936 Memphis, Tennessee |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | B.A. M.D. Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | Brown University Stanford University School of Medicine Karolinska Institute |
| Occupation(s) | Orthopedist Orthopedic Surgeon |
| Notable work | The Clinical Biomechanics of the Spine Your Aching Back |
| Spouse | Anita White |
Augustus A. White III (born June 4, 1936) is an American surgeon who is the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a former Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. White was the first African American medical student at Stanford, surgical resident at Yale University, professor of medicine at Yale, and department head at a Harvard-affiliated hospital (Beth Israel Hospital).