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Alma Dea Morani, MD — surgery (plastic)

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Dr. Alma Dea Morani (1907-2001) is best known as the first woman plastic surgeon in the United States. A keen artist as well as a talented surgeon, Dr. Morani’s work in the emerging specialty of plastic surgery truly unified the art and the science of medicine.

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