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Mildred Fay Jefferson (April 6, 1927 – October 15, 2010) [1] was an American physician and anti-abortion activist.The first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, the first woman to graduate in surgery from Harvard Medical School, and the first woman to become a member of the Boston Surgical Society, she is known for her opposition to the legalization of abortion and her work ...
The main motivation for the school’s foundation was the belief that male physicians should not generally assist in childbirth. [5] Founder Samuel Gregory saw what he called "man-midwifery" as unnatural and improper and believed that women should be given formal medical education in order to become certified midwives and attend to their own sex.
Carl F. Nathan, 1972, dean of the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences at Cornell University and chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine; Thomas D. Pollard, 1968, professor of cell biology and molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University and dean of Yale's Graduate School of Arts and ...
The Harvard Medical School listed the graduates' names on their website: First female graduates from HMS: Doris Rubin Bennett, Martha Kern ... For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
Gloria Johnson-Powell (born Gloria Johnson, 1936 – October 11, 2017) [1] was a child psychiatrist who was also an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement and was one of the first African-American women to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School.
This list of East Carolina University alumni includes graduates, non-graduate former students and current students of East Carolina University. East Carolina alumni are generally known as Pirates . The first class of 123 students entered ECTTS in 1909, [ 1 ] and the first 16 graduates received their degrees in 1911. [ 2 ]
Paula Adina Johnson (born 1959) [1] is an American cardiologist and the current president of Wellesley College.She is the first Black woman to serve in this role. [2]Prior to her role as president of Wellesley, Johnson founded and served as the inaugural executive director of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health & Gender Biology, [3] as well as Chief of the Division of Women's ...
Webb was born February 21, 1923, in Mobile, Alabama, to Cattie Lee Avant Johnson, and Bibb Garden Johnson. She earned a BS from Tuskegee Institute in 1943 and her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) in 1949 from the Tuskegee Institute (now University) School of Veterinary Medicine. [1]