Omega Silva
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Omega C. Logan Silva (December 4, 1936 — April 2, 2020) was an American physician known for her discovery that small cell lung cancer can produce calcitonin and for her activism.[1]
Silva attended Howard University for all of her higher education, graduating with a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1958 and a doctorate of medicine in 1967. Her first residency, in internal medicine, was at the Washington, DC Veterans Administration Hospital from 1967 to 1970; her fellowship in endocrinology was at George Washington University until 1974.[1][2]