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Karen Hein, MD — pediatric medicine (adolescent)

Courtesy Karen Hein, MD

Dr. Karen Hein (b. 1944), a founding member of the Dartmouth Medical School Board of Overseers from 1973 to 1978, also established the world’s first adolescent HIV/AIDS education program in 1987. To do so, she worked closely with New York City’s Board of Education to expand HIV/AIDS education to approximately 1 million students in the city’s public school system.

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