D.C. Mondays: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles R. Drew

The father of the blood bank was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Before his groundbreaking work in medicine, Charles R. Drew grew up in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood. Join Craig Miller, a practicing physician and co-author of Genius Unbroken: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles R. Drew (Georgetown University Press, 2025), to learn more about Drew’s time in Washington and beyond. This book was written in collaboration with Charlene Drew Jarvis, and is the first comprehensive biography on her father. 

Please note: Because Dr. Miller is a practicing physician this program’s schedule is subject to change. 

About Craig Miller 

Craig A. Miller, MD, FSVS, FACS, was educated at Northwestern University, the Ohio State University, and the University of California, San Francisco. He has authored four books on the history of medicine, including A Time for All Things: The Life of Michael E. DeBakey ( 2020) and Genius Unbroken: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Charles R. Drew (2025). Dr. Miller is a board-certified attending vascular surgeon with the United States Veterans Administration, a scholar-in-residence at the Medical Heritage Center of the Ohio State University College of Medicine, and the Michael E. DeBakey Fellow in the History of Medicine at the National Library of Medicine.