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The first woman in America to receive a medical degree, Elizabeth Blackwell championed the participation of women in the medical yrke and ultimately opened her own medical college for women.

Born near Bristol, England on February 3, 1821, Blackwell was the third of nine children of Hannah Lane and Samuel Blackwell, a sugar refiner, Quaker, and anti-slavery activist. Blackwell’s famous relatives included brother Henry, a well-known abolitionist and women’s suffrage supporter who married women’s rights activist Lucy Stone; Emily Blackwell, who followed her sister into medicine; and sister-in-law Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first ordained female minister in a mainstream Protestant denomination.

In 1832, the Blackwell family moved to America, settling in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1838, Samuel Blackwell died, leaving the family penniless during a national financial crisis. Elizabeth, her mother, and two older sisters worked in the predominantly female profession of teaching.

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	As a pediatrician, writer, wife, and mother—Perri Klass has demonstrated how medicine is integral to the health of families and communities, and how doctors themselves struggle to balance the conflicting needs of profession, self, and family. With her love of literature and her involvement with literacy, Klass is acutely aware of the importance of reading to personal and professional success. As medical director of Reach Out and Read, a national schema which makes books and advice about reading to young children part of every well-child visit, she encourages other pediatricians to foster pre-reading skills in their young patients. Klass grew up with a love of writing. "I come from a family in which most people write, and publish (though no one makes a living at it)." In high school, college, and graduate school, she wrote fiction, and continued to so do during medical school. Her decision to study medicine came gradually. She began graduate sch • Awards & Mastership Sample Biography Dr. Name is Professor of Medicine Emeritus, University Medical Center, and staff physician for the State Hospital. Previously, she was Director of the University Medical Group, where she helped pave the way for outstanding generalist internists to be respected at a time when subspecialization was considered the primary route to success. She also was Director of the University Executive Health Program and Medical Director of the University Hospital Home Care Program. She has been very active in the Society for General Internal Medicine and Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM), serving on numerous committees and as a CDIM Officer. Dr. Name has over 65 publications to her name, including 3 books. Widely recognized as a superb clinician, she has received numerous "best doctor" awards as well as teaching awards. Dr. Name has co-chaired and served as faculty for ACP Florida Chapter meetings.