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Changing the Face of Medicine

 Changing the Face of Medicine,

Celebrating America's Women Physicians

Indiana University School of Medicine Library,  Indianapolis, IN

This exhibit is now being moved from Indianapolis to it's next stop on the tour.

Discover the many ways that women have influenced and enhanced the practice of medicine. The National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit, Changing the Face of Medicine, Celebrating America's Women Physicians, was exhibited in Indianapolis, Indiana, from May-Sept 9, 2010, at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library for seven weeks of public and special events featuring Indiana's local legends.

Visit the National Exhibit Website 

Pioneer Women Physicians in Indiana 

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Doris Merritt, MD

Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, IUSM and First woman chairman of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine, NIH, 1978.

Photo courtesy of IUPUI Image College, IUPUI University Library Special Collections and Archives UA 24-007732

 

For more information and to contact the local group planning the IU School of Medicine Libraries' events, please contact:

Carole Gall 
cfgall@iupui.edu 

Mary Dankoski
mdankosk@iupui.edu
Kathy Grove
ksgrove@iupui.edu

 Mary Ellen Nottage
edenharter@imhm.org

Program of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, in collaboration with the American Library Association Public Programs Office.  The traveling exhibition has been made possible by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health.  The American Medical Women's Association provided additional support.