U.S. National Institutes of Health

Linda Susan Aranaydo, MD — general medicine (family)

Courtesy Linda Susan Aranaydo, MD

Dr. Linda Aranaydo (b. 1948), a Muscogee Creek Indian, Kialegee Tribal Town, Bear Clan, has devoted her life to serving her family and her community and is a role model for other women who wish to enter medicine. As a preschool teacher at Hintil Native American Children’s Center in Oakland, California, she was raising two sons as a single parent and had no financial resources when she was admitted to medical school at the age of 37.

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