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Janice Green Douglas, MD — internal medicine (endocrinology), internal medicine

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Dr. Janice E. Douglas (b. 1943), a fellow of the American Heart Association, decided to research hypertension and how cells control blood pressure after two of her mentors from medical school suffered strokes. She was a professor of medicine, and physiology and biophysics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and as director of hypertension in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and Universitry Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, she received over $20 million in research funding.

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