Irena Grasberg Koprowska, MD — diagnostic and therapeutic services (cytopathology), diagnostic and therapeutic services (pathology)
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Dr. Irena Grasberg Koprowska (1917–2012) began her medical career after fleeing her native Poland and the invading German army in 1939. As a young physician who worked in a pathology lab with little supervision and virtually no textbooks, she became a pioneer in the field of cytopathology. Dr. Irena Koprowska co-authored, with Dr. George Papanicolaou, a case report of the earliest diagnosis of lung cancer by a sputum smear. She became the first female full professor at Philadelphia’s Hahnemann University in 1964.
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