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Barbara Barlow, MD — pediatric medicine, research, surgery

Courtesy Barbara Barlow, MA, MD

Dr. Barbara Barlow (b. 1938) was the first woman to train in pediatric surgery at Babies Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (now called New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital). By researching and documenting the causes of injuries to children in Harlem, and increasing public education about their prevention, she has helped to dramatically reduce accidents and injuries to inner-city children in New York and throughout the United States.

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