Susan smith mckinney steward medical society

          The Susan Smith McKinney Steward Medical Society was established in in New York City as a professional association of Black women physicians.

        1. The Susan Smith McKinney Steward Medical Society was established in in New York City as a professional association of Black women physicians.
        2. Susan McKinney Secondary School of the Arts in Brooklyn and the Susan Smith McKinney Steward Medical Society are named for her.
        3. On a mission to support women of color in Medicine since ssmsmedicalsociety@
        4. The Susan Smith McKinney Steward Medical Society (SSMS) an NMA affiliate, founded by Dr. Muriel Petioni and named after the first Black.
        5. Susan McKinney Steward graduated from medical school and became the first African American woman physician in New York and only the third black female doctor.

          6. On a mission to support women of color in Medicine since ssmsmedicalsociety@.

          Susan McKinney Steward

          American physician and writer

          Susan Maria McKinney Steward (March &#; March 17, ) was an American physician and author.

          She was the third African-American woman to earn a medical degree, and the first in New York state.[1][2][3]

          McKinney-Steward's medical career focused on prenatal care and childhood disease.

          From to , she ran her own practice in Brooklyn and co-founded the Brooklyn Women's Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary.[4] She sat on the board and practiced medicine at the Brooklyn Home for Aged Colored People.

          From , she worked as college physician at the African Methodist Episcopal Church's Wilberforce University in Ohio. In , she attended the Universal Race Congress in New York, where she delivered a paper entitled "Colored American Women".[1]

          Biography

          Early life

          McKinney-Steward was born Susan Maria Smith to Anne and Sylvanus Smith in She lived at Pearl Street, in Weeksville, now C