Clarice Reid

Clarice D. Reid (born 1931) is an American pediatrician born in Birmingham, Alabama, who led the National Sickle Cell Disease Program at the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health. She has also served as President Emeritus on the American Bridge Association's Education and Charitable Foundation, and has scored a rare perfect bridge score.

Education Clarice Reid was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1931. After attending a three-room elementary school in Birmingham, Alabama and the city's only high school for African American students, She began a course of study to become a medical technician before changing to medical school to become a physician at Meharry Medical College, in Nashville, Tennessee. She later became Director of Pediatric Education before chairing the Pediatric Department at Jewish Hospital.

Awards and honors Superior Service Award, the highest honor given by the U.S. Public Health Service, 1989 Recognition in the "NIH Women Making History" program One of Black Enterprise magazine's "America's Ten Leading Black Doctors" Designated a "Distinguished Woman" by the Black Women in Scholarship for Action Included in the Book of Black Heroes, Volume II: Great Women in the Struggle, which salutes eighty-four accomplished black women in the arts, sciences, education, athletics, government and social services