Joseph Pierce Braud

Joseph Pierce Braud, MD, grew up in Brookstown, Louisiana, and earned his medical degree from Howard University Medical School in Washington, D.C. in 1958. He practiced medicine for more than fifty years in New Orleans and was head of the anesthesiology department at Flint-Goodridge Hospital of Dillard University for twenty-one years. He was the first African American physician accepted in the segregated Anesthesiology Residency Program opening the door for minority interns and residents to...See more

Joseph Pierce Braud, MD, grew up in Brookstown, Louisiana, and earned his medical degree from Howard University Medical School in Washington, D.C. in 1958. He practiced medicine for more than fifty years in New Orleans and was head of the anesthesiology department at Flint-Goodridge Hospital of Dillard University for twenty-one years. He was the first African American physician accepted in the segregated Anesthesiology Residency Program opening the door for minority interns and residents to receive medical there and elsewhere. See less