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Alice Ettinger, MD — diagnostic and therapeutic services (radiology)

Courtesy From Tufts University School of Medicine, Archives

Radiologist and educator Dr. Alice Ettinger (1899–1993) came to the United States in 1932, to demonstrate Dr. Hans Heinrich Berg’s spot-film device and change the field of gastrointestinal radiology in America. She taught at Tufts University School of Medicine for 53 years, serving as the first chair of the department of radiology.

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