Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD — public health, general medicine (family)
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Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble (b. 1953) is a physician and historian of medicine. Raised in a poor neighborhood in West Philadelphia in the 1950s, she has become an influential spokesperson for equal access to quality medical care for all Americans. She chaired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee in 1997, which prompted a presidential apology for the treatment of African American patients.
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