St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened in February 1962 due to the efforts of the late actor Danny Thomas. The hospital was the first integrated pediatric hospital in the South, challenging the reality of race relations at the time. Dr. Rudolph Jackson, the first Black doctor hired to work at St. Jude, was a […]

  Dr. Yvonne Carroll is the Director of Patient Services in the Department of Hematology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Yvonne graduated with a Bachelors of Nursing Degree from the University of Tennessee and a Law degree from the University of Cincinnati. Yvonne served in the United States Navy as a […]