# Clarice Reid

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{{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](/source/Birmingham%2C_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](/source/Jewish_Hospital_(Cincinnati%2C_Ohio)), Cincinnati <br/>
[Children's Hospital](/source/Cincinnati_Children's_Hospital_Medical_Center), Cincinnati <br/>
[National Center for Family Planning, Health Services and Mental Health Administration](/source/National_Center_for_Family_Planning%2C_Health_Services_and_Mental_Health_Administration) <br/>
[National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute](/source/National_Heart%2C_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](/source/Talladega_College)
* [University of Cincinnati College of Medicine](/source/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](/source/United_States_of_America) [pediatrician](/source/pediatrician) born in [Birmingham, Alabama](/source/Birmingham%2C_Alabama), who led the National [Sickle Cell Disease](/source/Sickle_Cell_Disease) Program at the U.S. [National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute](/source/National_Heart%2C_Lung%2C_and_Blood_Institute) (NHLBI) at the [National Institutes of Health](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Birmingham%2C_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Washington_metropolitan_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](/source/National_Heart%2C_Lung%2C_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](/source/Margaret_Heckler) and known as the "[Heckler Report](/source/Heckler_Report)" and led to the establishment of the [Office of Minority Health](/source/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](/source/National_Heart%2C_Lung%2C_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](/source/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](/source/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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