Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross pioneered the concept of providing psychological counseling to the dying. In her first book, On Death and Dying (1969), she described five stages she believed were experienced by those nearing death—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

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Dr Carolyn Robinowitz

Dr. Carolyn Robinowitz was the founding director of the American Psychiatric Office of Education in 1976 and the first woman psychiatrist elected to the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1979.

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Dr Shirley F Marks

In 1973, Dr. Shirley Marks was the first Spelman College alumna, and only the second African American woman in twenty-three years to graduate from Harvard Medical School.

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Dr U Diane Buckingham

Dr. Buckingham has received the Presidential Scholar Award from the Black American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Black National Medical Association, Psychiatry Division, Chester Pierce Resident’s Award.

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Dr Mary Hasbah Roessel

Dr. Mary H. Roessel was the first person in her Diné (Navajo) community to attend medical school and become a doctor (1987) and the first woman Diné (Navajo) psychiatrist to provide Indian Health Service clinical care in New Mexico.

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Dr Linda S Austin

Through her lectures, workshops, syndicated radio programs and other communications media, Linda Austin, M.D., expands her clinical care to educate people across the country on substance abuse and mental health issues.

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