Dr. Ruth Marguerite Easterling, pathologist, worked with William Augustus Hinton, the African American physician who developed the Hinton test for syphilis. She also served on the staff of the Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital in Alabama, and was director of laboratories at the Cambridge Massachusetts City Hospital.
Pursuing her goal of reducing the number of diabetes-related amputations for Native American populations, Dr. Sara Dye directed the first non-invasive vascular laboratory for the Indian Health Service in 1984.
Dr. Michelle Bholat is the first Latina appointed to the position of vice chair of the Department of Family Medicine at The David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles.
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).
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 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 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 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.
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 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.