Saturday, April 11, 2015
TSU alumnus, medical pioneer Levi Watkins dies - The Tennessean - Dr. Watkins enrolled at Tennessee State in 1962, majoring in biology and graduating with honors. He was also elected student body president. In 1966, following graduation, he became the first African-American to be admitted to and to graduate from Vanderbilt's School of Medicine. -- In February 1980, Dr. Watkins performed the world's first human implantation of the automatic implantable defibrillator and would go on to develop several different techniques for the implantation of the device. Watkins also helped to develop the cardiac arrhythmia service at Johns Hopkins where various new open-heart techniques are now being performed to treat patients at risk of sudden cardiac death
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