Carolyn Cannon-Alfred

Carolyn Cannon-Alfred
Born 1934 (age 83–84)
Tyler, Texas, United States
Nationality American
Citizenship United States
Education University of Toledo
Howard University
Alma mater Georgetown University
Spouse(s) J. Tyrone Alfred

Carolyn Cannon-Alfred (born August 16, 1934[1]) is an American pharmacologist. She received her bachelor's from the University of Toledo, her MS from Howard University, and her PhD from Georgetown University.[2] Her and her husband, J. Tyrone Alfred, wrote Medical Handbook for the Layman.[3]

She served as an assistant pharmacologist at Howard University from 1957–59, and accepted a position there as an instructor in 1961. Later that year, she was hired as a Senior Pharmacologist at Riker Laboratories, and in 1962 she took a research associate position at California Riverside Hospital. In 1964 she moved to University of Southern California School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology.

She received a two-year research grant from the National Heart Institute in 1964.

References

  1. ↑ Vivian Ovelton Sammons (1990). Blacks in Science and Medicine. Hemisphere Publishing Corporation. p. 7. ISBN 0-89116-665-3.
  2. ↑ Wini Warren (1999). Black Women Scientists in the United States. Indiana University Press. pp. 25–26. ISBN 0-253-33603-1.
  3. ↑ Johnson Publishing Company (November 1971). Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company. p. 81.


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