Velma P Scantlebury, MD presents “A Harriet Kind of World” as part of the Department of Surgery, Grand Rounds Visiting Professor Lectureship

2020 Harriet B Tubman Lectureship

On February 19, 2020 Dr. Velma P. Scantlebury, our 2020 Harriet B. Tubman Lecturer presented “A Harriet Kind of World” celebrating the life and accomplishment of Harriet Tubman. Dr. Scantlebury is currently the Associate Director of the Kidney Transplant Program at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Delaware, as well as the Director of Outpatient Clinics for kidney transplant services. She relocated to Christiana Care in 2008 from Mobile, Alabama.

Dr. Scantlebury received her medical degree from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, followed by her general surgery residency at Harlem Hospital Center. She later moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to complete a fellowship in multi-organ transplantation surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. After moving through the ranks to an Associate Professor in Transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh, she relocated to Mobile, Alabama in 2002, to become Professor of Surgery, and Director of the Kidney Transplant Center at University of South Alabama Medical Center.

Dr. Scantlebury is the first African American woman in the field of transplantation surgery and was honored with the National Kidney Foundation’s Gift of Life Award for her work in Kidney Transplantation and minorities.