Today we’re highlighting the first African American woman in the United States to become a neurosurgeon, Dr. Alexa Canady. As a neurosurgeon, Dr. Canady focused on working with young patients facing life-threatening illnesses, gunshot wounds, head trauma, hydrocephaly, and other brain injuries or diseases. Throughout her twenty-year career in pediatric neurosurgery, Dr. Canady has helped thousands of patients. #ARYEXBHM