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Dr. Joann Boughman
(ΒΤ-Indiana)
Geneticist. University of
Maryland, Baltimore, vice president for academic affairs and
graduate school dean (since 1995). Named among “Maryland’s
Top 100 Women” (1997, 1999, 2001). 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
(Λ-UC/Berkeley)
Specialist in Indian
affairs.
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.
(Δ-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.
(ΒΔ -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
(ΒΒ-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.
