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Odette Harris has made history by becoming\u00a0America\u2019s\u00a0first Black woman professor of neurosurgery,\u00a0The Stanford Daily reports.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Harris who obtained M.D. status in 1996, specializes in traumatic brain injury, has served as the director of brain injury in Standford University\u2019s department of neurosurgery, as well as the department\u2019s associate chief of staff of polytrauma and rehabilitation at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Health Care System since 2009.<\/p>\n

Odette Harris joins Lu Chen as the second female professor in the department of neurosurgery at the School of Medicine<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Harris is also a faculty research fellow at the Clayman Institute. She attributes her passion for the physical sciences and chemistry to studying then at an all-girls high school.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cAll those cliches about girl schools and empowering girls and women, I think they\u2019re true,\u201d Harris\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0in an interview with Stanford Medicine.<\/p>\n

The Stanford Daily<\/p>\n

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