Dr. Clarence Higgins
Dr. Clarence Higgins, 1953. (Courtesy of Meharry Medical College.)
Clarence Higgins was born in 1927. He attended Fisk University for undergraduate studies and later graduated from Meharry College of Medicine in 1953. Dr. Higgins then completed his residency in pediatrics at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis and later studied at the Baylor University College of Medicine from 1956-1957. Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that addresses the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease among infants and children. When he completed his medical training, he entered the Air Force from 1957 to 1959.
Dr. Higgins arrived in Houston in the early 1960s. As a pediatrician, Dr. Higgins practiced closely with Dr. Blanchard Hollins, a classmate from Meharry. Dr. Hollins was an obstetrician and gynecologist.
Dr. Higgins was one of the founders of the Lockwood Community Hospital along with Dr. Hollins, Dr. Herman Barnett, Dr. Carl Mark Carroll, and Dr. Robert Baker.
A member of the Houston Medical Forum, he also served as the Pediatrics Secretary of the National Medical Association.
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