Clarice Reid was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1931. After attending a three-room elementary school in Birminghma, Alabama and the city"s only high school for African American students, Reid went on to follow in her father"s footsteps by attending Talladega College in Alabama.
Clarice Reid was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1931. After attending a three-room elementary school in Birminghma, Alabama and the city"s only high school for African American students, Reid went on to follow in her father"s footsteps by attending Talladega College in Alabama. She began a course of study to become a medical technician before changing to medical school to become a physician at Meharry Medical College, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Her husband got a job in Cincinnati, so she completed her medical training at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, the third African American woman to gain an Doctor of Medicine there.
She is a mother of four children. In 1970, she moved to the District of Columbia area.
She went on to become the Director of Division of Blood Diseases and Resources at National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She has also served as President Emeritus on the American Bridge Association"s and Charitable Foundation, and has scored a rare perfect bridge score. She later became Director of Pediatric before chairing the Pediatric Department at Jewish Hospital. After moving to the District of Columbia area, she first joined the National Center for Family Planning, Health Services and Mental Health Administration as a medical consultant before joining the National Sickle Cell Disease Program at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 1973.
In 1988 she retired as the director of the Division of Blood Diseases and Resources (DBDR), in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, after 26 years of federal service.
She facilitated collaboration between researchers in the sickle cell anemia community and advances in understanding sickle cell disease. Two Public Health Service and Special Recognition Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA).
Superior Service Award, the highest honor given by the United States. Public Health Service, 1989 National Institutes of Health Director"s Award National Institutes of Health Merit Award Two Public Health Service and Special Recognition Awards The Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award, 1991 Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA) Clarice D. Reid, Doctor of Medicine Lecture in her honor Recognition in the "National Institutes of Health Women Making History" program One of Black Enterprise magazine"s "America"s Ten Leading Black Doctors" Designated a "Distinguished Woman" by the Black Women in Scholarship for Action Included in the Book of Black Heroes, Volume II: Great Women in the Struggle, which salutes eighty-four accomplished black women in the arts, sciences, education, athletics, government and social services.
Reid was a member of the 1985-1986 Taskforce on Black and Minority Health. Reid was a member of the 1985-1986 Taskforce on Black and Minority Health for the United States Government, which was commissioned by Margaret Heckler and known as the "Heckler Report" and led to the establishment of the Office of Minority Health.
