Levi Watkins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLevi Watkins
American surgeon
Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1944
Place of Birth: Parsons, Kansas, United States
Date of Death: 11-Apr-2015
Profession: surgeon
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Levi Watkins
- Levi Watkins Jr.
- (June 13, 1944 – April 11, 2015) was an American heart surgeon and civil rights activist.
- On February 4, 1980, he and Vivien Thomas were the first to successfully implant an automatic defibrillator in a human patient at Johns Hopkins University.
- This took place only a mere seven months after Watkins completed his surgical education at Johns Hopkins.
- Today, millions of patients everywhere use this device, which detects irregular heart beats and corrects them.Watkins was known to be a determined, passionate, and caring individual.
- He used this compassion to fuel his movement for minorities within the medical field.
- Today, people still use his wisdom and ideas based on civil rights activism to make medical schools more representative of the diversity of the human race.
- Vanderbilt University even has a lecture series held annually in his honor, in order to discuss the importance of inclusivity within the university.
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