Dr Muriel Petioni
Dr. Muriel Petioni was the founder and first chair of Medical Women of the National Medical Association (which became the Council of Women’s Concerns of the National Medical Association).
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Dr Nancy E Jasso
Dr. Nancy Jasso is one of the founding physicians of a laser tattoo-removal project for the San Fernando Valley Violence Prevention Coalition.
Dr Natalia M Tanner
Dr. Natalia Tanner was the first African American to be accepted into the residency program at the University of Chicago, the first African American board certified pediatrician in Detroit and the first African American woman fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr Nereida Correa
Dr. Nereida Correa was the first Hispanic woman to be named chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center.
Dr Rosalyn P Scott
Dr. Rosalyn P. Scott was a founding member of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons and the Association of Black Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons. She was the first Mary A. Fraley Fellow at the Texas Heart Institute, the first African American woman to be trained in thoracic surgery and the first African American woman to be granted membership in the Society of University Surgeons.
Dr Yvette Roubideaux
Yvette Roubideaux, M.D., a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe, served as director of the Indian Health Service and a senior adviser to the Health and Human Services Secretary for American Indians and Alaska Natives during the Obama Administration.
Dr Renee Rosalind Jenkins
Dr. Renee Jenkins was the first African American president of the Society of Adolescent Medicine and the first African American elected as president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr Rebecca J Cole
In 1867, Rebecca J. Cole became the second African American woman to receive an M.D. degree in the United States.
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.
Dr Yvonnecris Smith Veal
Dr. Yvonnecris Veal was the fifth African American student to be enrolled in the Medical College of Virginia, at a time when only 14 of the 26 southern medical schools had accepted black students. She was the first woman to chair the Board of Trustees of the National Medical Association.