Angelo Thrower
Angelo Thrower is an African-American physician and businessperson.[1] He is a physician with the Miami Heat NBA basketball team and founder of Dr. Thrower’s Heritage Collection for Black Skin Care.
Early life
[edit]Angelo Thrower was raised in the Carol City suburb of Miami.[2] He first attended the College of the Canyons in California on a basketball scholarship, before a biology professors encouraged him to apply to medical school.[3]
Early career
[edit]Thrower graduated from the medical school at the University of Miami[4] in 1989, and pursued postgraduate work at the Georgetown University Medical Center. Following his education, he began his own skin therapy and dermatology clinic in South Miami. As he was one of the few people in the region to specialize on black skin, he treated both Floridians and those flying into Miami from local Caribbean islands. He lectured on black skin care on the local radio and wrote columns on the subject in The Miami Times over the span of his early professional career in Florida.[5] He later recalled his colleagues tried to convince him before opening his own clinic to specialize in racialized skin types that he was making a mistake, because skin problems did not exist in non-white skin.[6]
Career
[edit]In 1992, Thrower became a physician with the Miami Heat NBA basketball team as well as running his personal clinic.[7] He remained with the Heat for twenty-five years.[1] In addition to his clinic, Thrower also developed skin care kits for his clients and patients, adding a facial rejuvenation service to his medical practice.[6] This grew to become the Dr. Thrower’s Heritage Collection for Black Skin Care line of skin care products, that were introduced into 315 Walmart locations in 1999 after being sold locally and in Publix stores.[8] By 2003 the product line was available in 1750 stores, including Walmarts and K-mart outlets,[9] and remains sold in Walmart.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Cassandra Ledger (August 13, 2018). "How This Black Doctor Is Changing The Industry When It Comes To Skin Care". Black Enterprise.
- ^ Barbara Feder (July 23, 1994). "Young MD is fulfilling dreams of success". Miami Herald. p. 3B.
- ^ "Dermatologist takes on challenge of black skin-care products". Tampa Bay Times. January 3, 2000.
- ^ Janiah Adams (September 26, 2018). "Eczema treatment starts at the surface". The Miami Times.
- ^ Cindy Ycaza (February 21, 1993). "Black skin disease is doctor's specialty". Miami Herald. p. 127.
- ^ a b Michelle Chandler (January 17, 2000). "Doctor finds skin is a black-and-white issue". Miami Herald.
- ^ Beatrice Louissaint (January 27, 2000). "Black-owned Businesses Making History in Florida". South Florida South Sentinel.
- ^ Michelle Chandler (December 20, 1999). "One man's 'business mistake' is another man's empire". Miami Herald. p. 7.
- ^ Daniela Lamas (November 9, 2003). "Doctors do commercial makeovers of their own labels". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ Matthew Arrojas (July 9, 2021). "South Florida businesses ink preliminary distribution deals with Walmart". South Florida Business Journal.