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Grete Lehner Bibring, MD — psychiatry

Courtesy Archives of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston

According to a colleague, “Grete L. Bibring was a doyenne of the Boston psychiatric community.” Dr. Grete L. Bibring (1899–1977) was appointed chief of psychiatry at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital in 1946 and in 1961, she became one of only a few women physicians appointed to a full professorship at Harvard Medical School at the time.

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