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Judith Salmon Kaur, MD — education (teaching), internal medicine (oncology)

Courtesy Judith Salmon Kaur, MA, MD

Dr. Judith S. Kaur (b. 1945) has devoted her career to the improvement of survival rates for American Indians with cancer. Although she had planned to return to the reservation after medical school to practice medicine, she has instead devoted her career to scientific research. Fascinated with the study of cancer, she now makes her contribution to the health of American Indian populations at the forefront of medical science.

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