Dr. Leonidas Berry showed us it’s possible to achieve great things in the face of adversity, and this BlackHistoryMonth, we honor trailblazers like him. Learn more about his legacy and efforts to fight racial discrimination in medicine. HealthEquity
Berry family portrait featuring Leonidas H. Berry , his parents, Beulah and Llewellyn Berry, and brother, Richard Berry , Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1907
Berry was born in Woodsdale, North Carolina in 1902 and grew up in the segregated South. After attending Wilberforce University and the University of Chicago Medical School, he practiced medicine in Chicago for six decades, serving as attending physician at Cook County and Provident Hospitals. He became internationally recognized for co-inventing an instrument for taking gastric biopsies, and for creating a new type of clinic-based addiction treatment that became known as the “Berry Plan.
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