Eve Shapiro, M.D."Dedicated champion of accessible health care for all!"
"I wanted to be a doctor since I was six years old. I heard stories of people getting sick and then getting better, and I wanted to help heal them. I also loved science and working with people."
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Pediatrics
Arizona | |
Jonnie Horn McLeod, M.D."Caring pediatrician and addictions treatment expert"
"My father was a doctor and starting at age 13, I used to make house calls with him, helping to deliver babies. I once even stitched up a man's ear when his car wrecked outside our home!"
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Pediatrics
North Carolina | |
Leslie Boyer, M.D."International authority and antivenin researcher..."
"I grew up in the desert and was always outdoors. I loved the creatures of the desert and thought everybody loved snakes, spiders and Gila Monsters."
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Pediatrics
Arizona | |
Lorene Eckberg, M.D."Mother of four, pediatrician and volunteer..."
"Being a doctor fulfills my dream of helping people; of making a difference in their lives."
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Pediatrics
Illinois | |
Lucy Culpepper, M.D."The Spirit of Community Based Health Care..."
"I became interested in medicine when I was an undergraduate. A wonderful adviser of mine took me under her wing and I went on from there, taking a biomed program in the summers to prepare for Meharry. What I like most about being a doctor is taking care of the babies, of watching them grow up."
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Pediatrics
Alabama | |
Margaret M. Parker, M.D."Pediatric Intensive Care Champion"
"The most rewarding part of my job is taking care of a really sick child who gets well and goes home, and then the parents bring him or her back for a follow up and I can tell them their child is cured. That's a really wonderful feeling."
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Pediatrics
New York | |
Maureen Hack, M.D."Internationally recognized expert on premature babies"
"My interest in premature babies started as a
teenager, when I spent my summer vacations as a nurse's aid at a Leprosarium outside Pretoria, caring for premature babies who had been born to women with leprosy and removed from their care."
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Pediatrics
Ohio |