Meet the first black female neurosurgeon at top US hospital

After leaving Ghana at the age of 15, a 26-year old Nancy Abu-Bonsrah is currently the first black female neurosurgeon resident at the prestigious Johns

Hopkins Hospital.

Nancy was trained at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and was matched last week to be a resident at the hospital, making Nancy the first ever black woman in the 30 years of the neurosurgical department‘s residency program to be selected.

“What a way to begin the Sabbath!!! I still haven’t processed it yet but this is such an honor and a great privilege to join the department at Hopkins to begin this next phase of my career,” she posted this on her Facebook wall after her historic selection.

Nancy Abu-Bonsrah has gained international media attention for making such a history in America while receiving a huge number of congratulatory messages on social media from Africans.

“I always want to be in memory for serving my community, it can be by providing quality surgical care or by assisting mentor the next generation of neurosurgeons. Everything is special about the match. It will be a dream come true for me,” she was quoted saying this in the John Hopkins medical news release.

“I am very much interested in providing medical care in underserved settings, especially surgical care. I hope to be able to go back to my home-country Ghana over the course of my career to assist in building a sustainable surgical infrastructure,” Nancy added.

Nancy, who happens to be the first physician in her family, will continue her medical training during the seven-year residency program at the hospital founded in 1889.

Nancy said; she followed the indelible footsteps of the famous Dr. Ben Carson who was in the same profession at the hospital and the youngest physician ever to head a major division at the hospital – Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery.