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First female surgeon in the United States. Also the first female surgeon in the U.S. army as well.
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Thought to be the first female surgeon in the United States. First female surgeon in the U.S. Army too.
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First woman of Native American descent to earn a medical degree.
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Very first woman of Native American descent to earn a medical degree.
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Created the Apgar Score for evaluating new born infants health. First woman to earn full professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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The first woman of Hispanic descent to become Surgeon General of the United States.
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Opened the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital. In response to help decrease the high rate of maternal and infant mortality.
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Elected to the Institute of Medicine.
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Shared the Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of HIV.
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Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.
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Was the current U.S. Surgeon General and founded a health clinic in Alabama.
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Global head of new product development at BBI solutions.
