Amazing work! Tamia Potter, a medical student from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has made history in becoming the first Black woman doctor to be offered a highly coveted residency position in neurosurgery at Vanderbilt University.
“I am over the moon,” Potter later told cleveland.com. “I literally can’t even believe it. Yes, I always knew that I wanted to be a neurosurgeon, but I didn’t think that this is what I would accomplish.”
Along the way she says she became fascinated by the human brain and the many things that can go wrong in the nervous system, and knew she wanted to learn how to fix them.“Every day I’m just doing what I love, and then you look up and you realize what you’ve done -- or other people tell you what you’ve done because you’re kind of in the middle of it just trying to do it all!”
Potter says she’s committed to mentoring other young Black doctors and helping them navigate what can be a complicated and unfamiliar system. She believes the reason few minorities pursue medicine is due to a lack of guidance, knowledge and support from friends and family who have gone before. Combined, she says these make the chances of success much harder.
But thanks to the guidance and support of her mentors at CWRU SOM, she didn’t go back home, but is instead paving the way for the BlackShe credits Dr. Todd Otteson as a lifeline who really stepped up and helped her personally and professionally, as well as two Black emeritus deans from Case. Dr. Robert L. Haynie and his wife Dr. Edweana Robinson for providing her with needed mentorship and support. “These people made sure that I could continue the vision that I saw,” said Potter.
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