Dr Terri L Young
Pediatric ophthalmologist Terri L. Young, M.D., has researched the molecular genetics of myopia to help find better treatments for eye disorders.
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Dr Theresa Loya
With board certifications both in anatomic and clinical pathology and in internal medicine, Dr Loya seeks to help the poor and underserved with cancer prevention strategies as well as early detection and intervention for those who already have the disease.
Dr Vanessa Northington Gamble
Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble is a physician and historian of medicine.
Dr Victoria M Stevens
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Victoria M. Stevens practiced in Globe, Arizona, in the same town where she was born. As a woman physician and a member of the San Carlos Apache tribe, she served as a role model for young women interested in following in her footsteps.
Dr Virginia Davis Floyd
Dr Virginia Davis Floyd makes a difference by extending medical care to underserved populations around the world and integrating indigenous medical traditions with Western methods.
Dr Yvette Laclaustra
Puerto Rican surgeon
Dr Sharon M Malotte
Dr. Sharon Malotte was the first indigenous Nevadan to become a doctor in 1989.
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.
Dr Rebekah May Wang-Cheng
In 2002, after two decades in academic medicine, Rebekah Wang-Cheng, M.D., decided to leave the Medical College of Wisconsin and open a solo practice in California.
Dr Risa J Lavizzo-Mourey
Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey is the first woman and first African American to be president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest health care philanthropy organization in the United States.