When Albert Reed died in 1979, he was the oldest and longest practicing dentist in the Glen Cove-Sea Cliff area. He was also the first black dentist to practice full-time on Long Island.
By 1938, Charles set up a blood plasma system and by 1939, he set up a blood bank at the Columbia Medical Center. He made a breakthrough discovery that blood plasma could replace whole blood, which deteriorated in a few days in storage. This discovery pla
Dr. Charles R. Drew's knowledge, vision and leadership helped realize the possibility of blood collection and storage, and his discoveries served as a model for the future of blood banking.
