2018 FAMU grad becomes the first Black woman to study at Vanderbilt's Department of Neurological Surgery

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Tamia Potter

Tamia Potter, a 2018 FAMU graduate, with a bachelors in Chemistry, this week was selected to become the first African American female neurosurgery resident to train at the Vanderbilt University College of Medicine, Department of Neurological Surgery in its 148 year history.

After graduating from FAMU, Potter received a full tuition scholarship to study at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine.  At CWRU, Potter had 17 research publications, 12 citations, and 262 reads, including: Percutaneous vertebral augmentation for acute traumatic vertebral fractures.

 
Potter says her first job was as a certified nursing assistant at 17 years old in 2014.  She received this latest bit of good news on March 17, "National Match Day", when thousands of graduating medical students learned where they will be training for residency for the next several years.  

While at FAMU, Potter was an initiate of the Beta Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.