Andrea Hayes Dixon, MD, FACS, FAAP

Dr. Hayes Dixon was appointed as the first Black woman to serve as dean of The Howard University College of Medicine in 2022. She completed a molecular biology fellowship at the University of California - San Francisco. She also completed a pediatric surgery fellowship at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children. She also participated in a special fellowship in melanoma and sarcoma at the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Dean Hayes Dixon became the first African American woman in the nation to achieve board certification in pediatric surgery in 2004. In addition, she was the first surgeon worldwide to perform a high-risk, life-saving procedure in teenagers with rare forms of abdominal cancer in 2006.