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Bookmark or Share- Alexa Canady, MD: The first Black woman neurosurgeonAlexa Canady (b. 1950) was the daughter of Clinton Canady, Jr., DDS, and Elizabeth Canady, a civil rights activist and the first African American to serve on the Michigan Board of Education. Alexa’s maternal grandmother taught at Lane College, a historically Black college, in Jackson, Tennessee. Her grandfather was a pharmacist.
- Changing the Face of Medicine | Alexa Irene CanadyAlexa Irene Canady had almost dropped out of college as an undergraduate, but after recovering her self-confidence she went on to qualify as the first African American woman neurosurgeon in the United States.
- Alexa Canady - Career, Family & Facts - BiographyWho Is Alexa Canady? While Alexa Canady was in college, a summer program inspired her to pursue a medical career. In 1981, she became the first female African American neurosurgeon in the...
- Canady History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms - HouseofNamesThe surname Canady was first found in County Tipperary (Irish: Thiobraid Árann), established in the 13th century in South-central Ireland, in the province of Munster. This distinguished Irish family were descended from Kennedy, nephew of King Brian Boru, Ireland's great Warrior King who fell in the battle of Clontarf in the year 1014.
- Dr. Alexa Canady-Davis's Biography - The HistoryMakersDr. Alexa Irene Canady-Davis was the first African American woman in the United States to become a neurosurgeon. Canady-Davis was born to Elizabeth Hortense (Golden) Canady and Dr. Clinton Canady, Jr., a dentist, on November 7, 1950, in Lansing, Michigan.
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