Ruth Marguerite Easterling, MD — diagnostic and therapeutic services (pathology)
Courtesy Tufts University School of Medicine
Dr. Ruth Marguerite Easterling (1898–1943), pathologist, worked with William Augustus Hinton, the African American physician who developed the Hinton test for syphilis. She also served on the staff of the Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital in Alabama, and was director of laboratories at the Cambridge Massachusetts City Hospital. Although not many details regarding her life and work have been preserved, she is memorialized by a scholarship for minority students established in her name at her alma mater, Tufts University.
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