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
Dr. Levi Watkins Jr. was the first Black chief resident at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the first surgeon to successfully implant an automatic heart defibrillator in a human in 1980.
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