Changing the Face of Medicine | Dr. Edith Irby Jones

Dr. Edith Irby Jones was the first woman to be elected president of the National Medical Association and the first African American to graduate from University of Arkansas School of Medicine (now the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.)
She’s featured in Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians, an online exhibition from the National Library of Medicine. Visit the homepage to see more: www.nlm.nih.go....
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