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Julia M. Jones, MD — internal medicine (pulmonology)

Courtesy Howard W. Jones, Jr, MD

Dr. Julia M. Jones (1908–1973) was a leader in the field of public health, specializing in the treatment of tuberculosis from the mid-1930s until her death in 1973. She was head of the pulmonary disease section at New York’s Harlem Hospital and a professor of clinical medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, treating some of the poorest people in the city who were particularly vulnerable to the disease.

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