Andrea Hayes-Jordan

Andrea Hayes-Jordan (born 1965) is an American surgeon. She was the first pediatric surgeon to perform a high-risk, life-saving procedure in children with a rare form of cancer and developed the first orthotropic xenograft model of metastatic Ewing's sarcoma. In 2002, she became the first African American female pediatric surgeon board-certified in the United States. Quotes Some of the challenges I have faced have been in getting trained in pediatric surgery and in pediatric surgical oncology. When I applied to be a pediatric surgery fellow, I did not match the first time, second time or third time because there were no other Black pediatric surgeons. I am the first board-certified U.S. Black female pediatric surgeon. This was a huge hurdle to overcome. It was challenging at first, but I love my profession now. Even though I wasn’t sure of the effectiveness, I was sure that doing nothing wasn’t going to make anything better, It takes 10-14 hours, sometimes 20 hours. The longest operation I’ve done is 22 hours. That individual had over 2,000 tumors My greatest satisfaction is being able to treat children all over the world for a disease that a few years ago, was considered hopeless. External links Category:Physicians from Los Angeles Category:Surgeons Category:21st-century African-American women Category:1965 births Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:20th-century African-American women Category:Living people Category:University of Texas at Austin alumni Category:Dartmouth College alumni