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Health and Medicine
Dr.
Joann Boughman
(Βeta
Τau-Indiana)
Geneticist. Executive vice president of the
American Society of Human
Genetics, working with the Human Genome
Project. Vice president of the American Board of Medical
Genetics. Founding fellow of the American College of
Medical Genetics. Advisor to the Maryland Science
Center. Served on the secretary’s advisory committee on
genetic testing, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (1999). Commissioner of higher education for
the Sate of Maryland. Named among “Maryland’s Top 100
Women” (1997, 1999, 2001).
Dr.
Sophie DeAberle Brophy
(Lambda-UC/Berkeley)
First
practicing applied anthropologist in the United States.
Superintendent of the United Pueblos Agency (1935).
Research director at the University of New Mexico.
Director of the Federal Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian
Education Survey (1963-67). Executive director of the
Commission on the Rights, Liberties and Responsibilities
of the American Indian (1959). Elected to New York
Academy of Science.
Edris
Rice-Wray Carson, M.D.
(Delta-Cornell) Public health doctor, primarily in
Central America and Mexico. Birth control pioneer who
headed the first large-scale clinical trials of the
birth control pill. Founded Mexico's first family
planning clinic, located in Mexico City. Medical
director of the Puerto Rico Family Planning Association.
Recipient of Planned Parenthood® Federation
of America Margaret Sanger Award (1978).
Brigid Gray Leventhal, M.D.
(Βeta
Delta-UCLA)
One of only six women in Harvard Medical
School, 1960. Director of clinical research
administration and division of pediatric oncology at
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center. Professor at Johns
Hopkins Medical School. Founding member of Pediatric
Oncology Group. President of Women in Cancer Research.
Federal Women's Award ('74), Outstanding Career Woman,
National Council of Women ('79), Professional
Achievement Award, UCLA Alumni Association
('82). Co-authored
Research Methods in Clinical Oncology.
Ann
Bigby McFarren
(Βeta
Βeta-Michigan State)
Lobbyist and public advocate for
programs in reproductive health. Developed Alpha Phi’s
AIDS Peer Education Program. Former executive director,
AIDS Action Council,
Washington, D.C.
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