Dr Ileana Vargas-Rodriquez
In 1998, Dr. Ileana Vargas-Rodriguez helped establish the pediatric component of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.
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Dr Ina Park Rhee
American physician with both an M.D. and a Ph.D. in human genetics.
Dr Janet L Mitchell
As a young medical student at Howard University College of Medicine from 1972 to 1976, Janet Mitchell saw patients from some of the poorest neighborhoods in Washington, D.C. Later, from 1976 to 1980, she served both her postgraduate internship and residency at New York’s Harlem Hospital Center. “Working at Harlem and doing almost all of my rotations in medical school at D.C. General Hospital, I said ‘there but by the grace of God—go I.’ I have ever since devoted myself to the underserved and the most disenfranchised.”
Dr Janice Green Douglas
In 1984, Dr. Janice Douglas became the first woman promoted to or appointed to the rank of professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University Medical School.
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 Jennifer A Giroux
Jennifer A. Giroux, M.D., built her career in epidemiology as an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Indian Health Service, where she promoted preventive measures to lower the rates of tuberculosis and HIV infection, cervical and breast cancers, and diabetes, among American Indian populations.
Dr Jeannette E South-Paul
When Dr. Jeannette E. South-Paul was appointed chair of the University of Pittsburgh department of family medicine in 2001, she became the first woman and the first African American to serve as a permanent department chair at the university.
Dr Justina Ford
Dr. Justina Laurena Ford became the first African American woman to be licensed as a physician in Colorado in 1902.
Dr Flavia Mercado
As a bilingual physician and educator, Dr. Flavia Mercado teaches the value of cultural competency. More than sharing a language, cultural competency requires that physicians are aware of cultural differences and treat all patients respectfully, an ideal Mercado instills in every medical student she teaches.
Dr Frances McLemore Fisk
A practicing obstetrician-gynecologist in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Frances McLemore Fisk, M.D., considers herself an advocate for the rights of the patient and firmly believes in the importance of viewing health care problems within the wider context of each individual’s circumstances.