30-Jul-1925 to 6-May-2019
Dr. Granville G. Coggs, M.D., F.A.C.R., was born to Dr. Tandy Washington Coggs and Nannie Hinkle Coggs in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He was the youngest of five children and grandson of slaves. He graduated from Dunbar High School in Little Rock in 1942.
From 1943 to 1946, Dr. Coggs trained at Tuskegee Army Airfield Class 45G. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, earning military badges of aerial gunner, aerial bombardier, multi-engine pilot, and “Tuskegee Airmen”.
In June 1949, Dr. Coggs received his Bachelor of Science degree with distinction, from the University of Nebraska, and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi honor societies. In June 1953, he received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School.
Distinctive accomplishments continued through Dr. Coggs’ career in medicine, with appointment as the first African American staff physician of the Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco in 1959, first head of the Ultrasound Radiology Division, University of California, San Francisco in 1972, and establishing the San Antonio Breast Evaluation Center, the role model for centers across the U.S. in 1983 and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Air Force Medical Reserve in 1985.
In addition to being a Fellow of the American College ofRadiology, a Charter Member of the Society of RadiologistsIn Ultrasound, and a Kappa Alpha Psi Scientist of the Yearaward winner, Dr. Coggs was also an accomplished musician,vocalist, and multiple medal winner in the Senior Olympics. He is a 2001 inductee into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame..
