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Dr Martha Medrano

Dr. Martha Medrano is a pioneer in medical education who wants works to make medical students more culturally competent.

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.

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.

Dr Margaret Morgan Lawrence

In 1948, Dr. Margaret Lawrence was the first African American to complete a residency at the New York Psychiatric Institute and the first African American trainee to be certified in psychoanalysis at Columbia University’s Columbia Psycoanalytic Center. In 1953, she was the first practicing child psychiatrist in Rockland County, New York and co-founder of the Rockland County Center for Mental Health in New York.

Dr Jeanne Spurlock

In 1971, Dr. Jeanne Spurlock became the first African American and first woman to receive the Edward A. Strecker M.D. Award.

Dr Catharine Gail Kincaid

Dr. Catharine Kincaid was the first American Indian to receive a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health/American Psychiatric Association.

Dr Grete Lehner Bibring

Appointed chief of psychiatry at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital in 1946 and in 1961 she became one of only a few woman physicians appointed to a full professorship at Harvard Medical School at the time.

Dr Carol Nadelson

Dr. Carol Nadelson was the first woman president of the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr Jennifer Richeson

Social psychologist whose research has illuminated how identities – particularly racial identities – are formed and shaped through interactions with others.