Millicent A Comrie

Millicent A. Comrie, born on August 6, 1948, and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, is a medical doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. Over the time of her career, she has worked in Red Hook (Brooklyn, New York) and Jamaica. She is fluent in English and Spanish, and has working knowledge of German. She developed techniques that allowed women to keep their uterus and not require a hysterectomy. of Maimonides Brooklyn Heights Center for Women's Health. In the interview she discussed the importance of providing medical practitioners with personal ethnic information or background to provide information on any tests that should be conducted. Comrie is recognized as one of the Top 10 Caribbean-Born Female Doctors in the U.S by News America. She won the Master Teacher Award in Obstetrics and Gynecology by the SUNY Downstate Alumni Association. In 2016, Comrie was conferred with the Order of Distinction (Officer's Class) from the Government of Jamaica. That same year, she received the Leader in Medicine Award by the Society of Foreign Consuls, an international organization representing the world's largest consular corps in New York. In 2021, Comrie was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Award.

Personal life Comrie's brother, Fenton Ferguson, was Minister of Health for Jamaica. Comrie continued working at Maimonides Women's Center. Her surviving daughter, Sacha Comrie Jackson-Chin, is a practicing attorney in her own law firm, in Freeport, Long Island.