L. D. Britt

Lunzy Delano Britt, known as L. D. Britt, is an American physician and the Brickhouse Professor of Surgery at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. He was the first African American in the United States to receive an endowed chair in surgery at a major American medical school. Born in Suffolk, Virginia, he finished as valedictorian of Booker T. Washington High School, took his bachelor's degree at the University of Virginia, where he joined the Raven Society, and went on to degrees from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He attained the level of Master Trauma Surgeon in 1995, served as President of the Southern Surgical Association, and was President of the American College of Surgeons for the term from October 2010 to October 2011.