{{short description|American pediatrician}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Clarice Reid | image = Clarice-Reid.jpg | image_size = | alt = Photo of Clarice Reid | caption = Dr. Clarice Reid on her retirement from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). | birth_name = Clarice D. Reid | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1931}} | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama | fields = {{plainlist | * Pediatrician * Director of the Division of Blood Diseases and Resources (DBDR), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute }} | work_institutions = Jewish Hospital, Cincinnati <br/> Children's Hospital, Cincinnati <br/> National Center for Family Planning, Health Services and Mental Health Administration <br/> National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute <br/><ref name="NLM">{{cite web|title=Dr. Clarice D. Reid |url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_262.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041117191323/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_262.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 November 2004 |work=Changing the Face of Medicine |publisher=National Library of Medicine |accessdate=13 March 2015}}</ref> | alma_mater = {{plainlist | * Talladega College * University of Cincinnati College of Medicine }} | known_for = {{plainlist | * Sickle Cell Disease * Oversaw the National Sickle Cell Disease Program at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for over 20 years * Only African-American pediatrician in Cincinnati from 1962-1968 }} }}
'''Clarice D. Reid''' (born 1931) is an American pediatrician born in Birmingham, Alabama, who led the National Sickle Cell Disease Program at the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health.<ref name="NIH Record" /> She went on to become the Director of Division of Blood Diseases and Resources at NHLBI. Reid was a member of the 1985-1986 Taskforce on Black and Minority Health.<ref name=Black-Minority-Health-TF>{{cite book|title=Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health|date=1986|publisher=U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services|location=Washington, DC|edition=Volume 4, Part 1|url=https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-8602912-mvset|access-date=20 March 2015}}</ref> She has also served as President Emeritus on the American Bridge Association's Education and Charitable Foundation,<ref name=ABA>{{cite web|title=The ABA Foundation Board|url=http://www.abafoundation.org/board-of-directors.html|publisher=American Bridge Association Education and Charitable Foundation|accessdate=20 March 2015}}</ref> and has scored a rare perfect bridge score.<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|last1=Truscott|first1=Alan|title=Bridge: 2 women as partners made perfect tournament score|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/08/arts/bridge-2-women-as-partners-made-perfect-tournament-score.html|publisher=NY Times|accessdate=20 March 2015|date=8 April 1982}}</ref>
==Education== Clarice Reid was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1931.<ref>{{cite book|last=Maurice|first=Jacquie|editor1-last=Commire|editor1-first=Anne|title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|date=2002|publisher=Yorkin Publications|location=Waterford, Connecticut|isbn=0-7876-4074-3|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591307840.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220190541/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591307840.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-02-20|chapter=Reid, Clarice D. (1931—)|url-access=subscription }}</ref> After attending a three-room elementary school in Birmingham, Alabama and the city's only high school for African American students,<ref name="UC magazine" /> Reid went on to follow in her father's footsteps by attending Talladega College in Alabama.<ref name="UC magazine">{{cite web|last1=Herrell|first1=Keith|title=Clarice Reid, MD '59|url=http://magazine.uc.edu/issues/0810/reid.html|website=University of Cincinnati Magazine|publisher=University of Cincinnati|accessdate=13 March 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref name="NLM"/> Her husband got a job in Cincinnati, so she completed her medical training at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,<ref name="UC magazine"/> the third African American woman to gain an MD there.<ref name=NLM /> She is a mother of four children.<ref name="UC magazine"/> In 1970, she moved to the DC area.<ref name="NLM"/>
==Professional career== Dr. Reid completed residencies at Jewish Hospital and Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati before opening a private practice as a pediatrician.<ref name="NIH Record">{{cite web|last1=Pack|first1=Laina|title=NHLBI's Clarice Reid Retires|url=http://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/08_11_98/retirees.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152312/http://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/08_11_98/retirees.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 April 2015|website=NIH Record Newsletter|publisher=National Institutes of Health|accessdate=13 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="Black Enterprise">{{cite news|title=America's Leading Black Doctors|work=Black Enterprise|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eZrMBPBzv4AC&q=Clarice+D+Reid&pg=PA66|accessdate=13 March 2015|date=October 1988|last1=Earl g. Graves|first1=Ltd}}</ref> She later became Director of Pediatric Education before chairing the Pediatric Department at Jewish Hospital.<ref name="NLM"/> After moving to the D.C. 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.<ref name="NIH Record"/>
Reid was a member of the 1985–86 Task Force on Black and Minority Health for the U.S. Government,<ref name=Black-Minority-Health-TF /> which was commissioned by Margaret Heckler and known as the "Heckler Report" and led to the establishment of the Office of Minority Health. 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.<ref name="NIH Record"/> She facilitated collaboration between researchers in the sickle cell anemia community and advances in understanding sickle cell disease.<ref name="Oral history project">{{cite web|title=Dr. Clarice Reid|url=http://history.nih.gov/archives/downloads/claricereid.pdf|website=NIH History Office|publisher=National Institutes of Health|accessdate=13 March 2015|archive-date=13 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513184517/http://history.nih.gov/archives/downloads/claricereid.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== * Superior Service Award, the highest honor given by the U.S. Public Health Service, 1989<ref name="NLM"/> * NIH Director's Award<ref name="NIH Record"/> * NIH MERIT Award<ref name="NIH Record"/> * Two Public Health Service and Special Recognition Awards<ref name="NIH Record"/> * The Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award, 1991<ref name="NLM"/><ref name="NIH Record"/> * Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA) Clarice D. Reid, M.D. Lecture in her honor<ref name=Reid-Lecture>{{cite web|title=Web Update - 2010-08 - August|url=https://scinfo.org/web-update-2010-08-august/web-update-2010-08-august|publisher=Sickle Cell Information Center|accessdate=20 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402131235/https://scinfo.org/web-update-2010-08-august/web-update-2010-08-august|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Recognition in the "NIH Women Making History" program<ref name="NIH Record"/> * One of Black Enterprise magazine's "America's Ten Leading Black Doctors"<ref name="NIH Record"/> * Designated a "Distinguished Woman" by the Black Women in Scholarship for Action<ref name="NLM"/> * 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<ref name="NLM"/>
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