The First Black Woman Dean of the Howard University College of Medicine – The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Read article - Quotes Andrea A. Hayes Dixon ’87, MED ’91, in an announcement that she has been appointed dean of the Howard University College of Medicine. When she takes office, Hayes Dixon will be the first Black woman to lead the medical school in its 154-year history. “The responsibility of educating the nation’s next generation of leaders in medicine is an enormous responsibility that I take very seriously,” Hayes Dixon said.