Jo Ivey Boufford, MD — pediatric medicine, public health (social medicine)
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After campaigning for the position of vice president for a year, Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford (b. 1945) broke through the glass ceiling that bars women from many of the highest administrative posts in medicine, to become the first woman president of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation. She served in that role from 1985 to 1989.
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