Brooks BenjyF

American paediatric surgeon affiliated with several hospitals in Houston, who was the first woman in the surgery department at Harvard Medical School and the first woman to become a paediatric surgeon in the state of Texas. In 1965, Brooks participated in the separation surgery for nine-week-old conjoined twins at Texas Childrens Hospital. She founded the paediatric surgery division at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 1973. Brooks received the Horatio Alger Award in 1983. In 1985, she was inducted into the Texas Womens Hall of Fame. She died on 2 April 1998, aged 79. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less