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Selma Harrison Calmes, MD — diagnostic and therapeutic services (anesthesiology)

Courtesy Selma Harrison Calmes, MD, photograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio

Dr. Selma Calmes (b. 1940) began her career in anesthesiology in the 1960s, when there were few women in the specialty and women physicians were expected to choose between having a career or raising a family. To do both, she has drawn inspiration from the experiences of other women in medicine and is one of the founders of the Anesthesia History Association.

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