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Left to Right: Dr. Wendy Greene, Drs. William and Vera Ricketts , Dr. L. Leffall
Emory Assistant Professor of Surgery, Javonda Hodge, MD, FACS also trained under the departmental leadership of Leffall with Dr. Greene and recounts her time under his study fondly.
Leffall was a modest man who defer his success to the great surgical mentors that preceded him. Such as the pioneering footsteps of Dr. W. Montague Cobb, whose prudence he coveted, Charles Drew, who’s precedent and expectation of a standard of excellence transformed black surgical culture, and Drs. Burke Syphax and Jack White, who personified the persistence and assuredness that Leffall one day embodied. However, to three generations of surgeons, physicians, and patients he was the personification of courage. When a leader, willing to dedicate himself to disparity in health research and administration for African- Americans, in the face of insurmountable odds, Dr. LeSalle Leffall Jr has nary an equal.