Dartmouth Alumni Magazine: Lifesaver


March 3, 2018

HEATHER SALERNO | MAR – APR 2018

America’s first black female pediatric surgeon, Andrea Hayes-Jordan ’87, DMS’91, delivers a therapy to treat a rare cancer.

As long as she can remember, Hayes-Jordan knew she wanted to be a doctor. She recalls being fascinated by the game Operation and looking forward to her annual checkups, when she got to use her pediatrician’s stethoscope. “My mother tells me that when I first started talking, I said I wanted to be a ‘baby doctor,’ ” says the L.A. native.

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