Tony Hansberry II
Young, gifted and black. Truly Tony is representing his community. Tony invented a new surgical technique that can be used to reduce surgical complications, as well as the chance of error among less experienced surgeons. At the age of 14, Tony Hansberry a high school freshman at the time was attending Darnell-Cookman Middle/High School of the Medical Arts in Jacksonville, Florida, a special medical magnet school that allows its students to take advanced classes in medicine. By Eighth grade he was able to master suturing, which is the surgical stitching of a wound.
Hanberry improved a procedure called the “endo stitch” used in hysterectomies that could not be clamped down properly to close the tube where the patient’s uterus had been. Using a medical dummy, the 14-year-old devised a vertical way to apply the endo stitch, completing the stitching in a third of the time of traditional surgery. Tony says his goal is become a neurosurgeon.
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