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Gallery: Claude H. Organ, Jr.

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A man’s portrait wearing a black suit coat with a dress shirt and tie.
Man in green surgical scrubs and head covering standing in an operating room.
Group of men and one woman seated in rows of an auditorium.
Black and grey illustration of man in a suit encircled with an outer rim noting “The Society of Black Academic Surgeons Founded 1989”
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Man in green surgical scrubs and head covering standing in an operating room.

Claude H. Organ, Jr., M.D.

In 1971, Claude H. Organ, Jr., M.D., became the first African American to chair a department of surgery at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska.


Courtesy the Organ Family