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Mary Ellen Beck Wohl, MD — pediatric medicine, education (teaching), internal medicine (pulmonology)

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Dr. Mary Ellen Beck Wohl (1932–2009) was associate director of the general clinical research center at Children’s Hospital Boston, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. Since the 1960s, when she first joined the university, Dr. Wohl specialized in the respiratory diseases of children and was a leader in the field of clinical research on cystic fibrosis. She developed a number of tests to evaluate the function of the lungs in young children.

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