Distinguish Professor Sadye Beatryce Curry M.D.
1941
Piooneer
Johnson C. Smith University in 1963.
Howard University College of Medicine in 1967.
Dr. Curry completed her internship in internal medicine at Duke University in 1967
The first Black woman in the United States to become a gastroenterologist. “e first African-American woman to become a gastroenterologist in the United States, the first African-American resident and woman to do postgraduate studies at Duke University Medical Center, Founder of the Leonidas Berry Society for Digestive Diseases. The first woman to serve as chair of the National Medical Association‘s internal medicine section
Sadye grew up in Reidsville, in Greensboro, NC, and she attended Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Johnson C. Smith is a Presbyterian schoolJohnson C. Smith University in 1963. She completed medical school at Howard University College of Medicine in 1967. Dr. Curry completed her internship in internal medicine at Duke University in 1967. She has two children One is a psychiatrist, an MD psychiatrist from Duke, and the other is a Ph.D. clinical psychologist, also trained at Duke. She currently still teaches at Central Regional Hospital in Butner N. C.
Awards
- Howard University College of Medicine Student Council Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence (1975)
- Kaiser Permanente Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (1978)
- Woman of the Year Award, Howard University College of Medicine Student American Medical Women’s Association (1990)
- Member, National Institutes of Arthritis, Metabolic and Digestive Diseases Training Grants Committee in Gastroenterology
- Member, Food and Drug Administration Drug Advisory Committee
- Chair, National Medical Association (gastroenterology section; 1985–2009)
- Chair, National Medical Association (internal medicine section; 2000–2001)
- President, Leonidas Berry Society for Digestive Diseases
- Distinguished Internist of the Year, National Medical Association (2002)
- Board of Trustees, National Medical Association (2007–present)
- Chair, National Medical Association Educational Affairs Committee