William Warrick Cardozo

William Warrick Cardozo (1905–1962) was an accomplished private physician and pediatrician who also served as an instructor at the Howard University College of Medicine and as a school medical inspector for the District of Columbia Board of Health. He is best known for his research on sickle cell anemia, but also published articles about Hodgkin's disease, the gastrointestinal health of children, and the physical development of African American children. Cardozo was an early African-American contributor in the healthcare profession. Frederick Lewis Cardozo worked for the Washington, D.C. public school system and became the superintendent of the Colored School system. He also served as the president of the Bethel Literary and Historical Society.

William Warrick Cardozo graduated high school from the Hampton Institute in Virginia and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology prior to becoming a student at Ohio State University. As a college senior he was ranked 7th in his class of 90 students and was awarded an internship at the City Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was only the fourth African American to hold such a position. He graduated from Ohio State University with a B.A. in 1929 and received an M.D. from Ohio State University in 1933.

Cardozo was very active both in the medical community and as a volunteer in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, the Advisory Committee of the District of Columbia Crippled Children's Society, the National Medical Association, Alpha Phi Alpha, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He also founded the Howard University branch of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and was serving as its secretary and treasurer at the time of his death. The Cardozo Education Campus in Washington, D.C., is named in his honor. Francis L. Cardozo and his siblings were born free because of their mother's status as a free woman.

Another relative of William Warrick Cardozo was his cousin Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, a chemist and renowned anthropologist who married the singer and political activist Paul Robeson.

Publications

"Immunologic studies in sickle cell anemia" in the Archives of Internal Medicine

"Hodgkin's disease with terminal eosinophilia occurring in a negro child with sicklemia" in The Journal of Pediatrics

"Growth and development of negro infants" in The Journal of Pediatrics

"Trichobezoar as an expression of emotional disturbance: Report of two cases in children" in the American Journal of Diseases of Children