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Anna Elizabeth Broomall, MD — obstetrics and gynecology, education (teaching)

Courtesy Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine

Dr. Anna Broomall (1847–1931) was chief resident physician at the Woman’s Hospital of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1875 to 1883, and instructor of obstetrics from 1875 to 1879. She became chair of obstetrics in 1879 and served as a professor in the department from 1880 to 1903.

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