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Levi watkins

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Trailblazing cardiac surgeon honored
Published June 12, 2023
Johns Hopkins Medicine's first Black chief resident and first Black full professor, Watkins performed the world's first implantation of an automatic heart defibrillator in a human
MLK Jr. commemoration
Honoring two legacies
Published Jan 8, 2016 Video
34th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration is first without event's founder, Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., who died in April at 70