Alice Drew Chenoweth, MD — pediatric medicine, public health (government)
Courtesy Historical Collection, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Looking back over her career, Dr. Alice Drew Chenoweth (1903–1998) noted that her hometown of Albany, Missouri was an unlikely place for a shy child to be transformed into a physician. Yet from her small-town beginnings, she eventually made her way to the nation’s capital, serving in a number of distinguished federal government positions at a time when few women held such posts.
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