In 2002, she was named co-director of New York’s Hispanic Center of Excellence at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She also has worked to establish a self-sustaining peer-run network aimed at the Hispanic adolescent male, to promote health and prevent disease with community-based support.
Canadian artist, teacher, Salvation Army officer, and newspaper edito
Canadian educator, social reformer, and office holder
Canadian physician, pathologist, museum curator, professor, cardiologist, author, and editor
First woman museum curator at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum
From 1992 to 1994 she served as president of the New Mexico Hispanic Medical Association.
Dr. Elizabeth O. Ofili was the first woman president of the Association of Black Cardiologists.
Dr. Elena Rios was one of the founders of the National Network of Latin American Medical Students and the National Hispanic Medical Association.
Eliza Lo Chin, M.D., has drawn inspiration from her female colleagues who strive to combine family responsibilities with a career in medicine. She has collected their experiences in her book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine, published in 2002. For her continuing work on women’s issues in medicine, Dr. Chin was nominated for the New York branch of the American Medical Women’s Association’s Outstanding Woman Physician Award for the year 2000.
Child at the heart of the Mendez et al v. Westminster School District of Orange County et al court case on racial segregation in the California public school system.