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- Walter Lawrence Jr. (May 31, 1925 – November 9, 2021) was a surgical oncologist at Memorial-Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Cornell Medical College, and at the Medical College of Virginia. He was a leader in civil rights health equity efforts. (en)
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- Internship and residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital (en)
- Ph.B., S.B., M.D., University of Chicago (en)
- Residency, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (en)
- USN training, Dartmouth College (en)
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- Founding father of the discipline Surgical oncology (en)
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- Walter M. Lawrence Jr. (en)
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- ...Walter personally mentored many Black surgical oncologists, fighting the good fight to diversify our workforce, which back then was much more homogeneous than it is today... (en)
- When the Southern Surgical Association declined to admit his friend Dr. LaSalle Leffall, because he was Black, and the American Medical Association refused to intervene on Leffall's behalf, Walter resigned from both groups. Instead, he became a member of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons. (en)
- Living in the former capital of the Confederacy, Walter witnessed racism on a daily basis. (en)
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- —Robert A. Winn and Gordon D. Ginder (en)
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- Dr. Walter Lawrence: A VCU Legacy (en)
- Walter Lawrence reflects on the National Cancer Act, COVID-19, and Richmond's vanishing monuments (en)
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- Walter Lawrence Jr. (May 31, 1925 – November 9, 2021) was a surgical oncologist at Memorial-Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Cornell Medical College, and at the Medical College of Virginia. He was a leader in civil rights health equity efforts. (en)
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