Margaret Morgan Lawrence, MD — pediatric medicine, psychiatry (child and adolescent)
Courtesy Margaret Morgan Lawrence, MD, MPH
In 1932, Margaret Morgan Lawrence (b. 1914) became the only African American student at Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences. Challenging the racism and sexism that she faced as she launched her career in medicine, Dr. Lawrence has gone on to have a distinguished career of breakthroughs and successes. She was the first practicing child psychiatrist in Rockland County and co-founded the Rockland County Center for Mental Health in New York, and in 1975, she was named the first recipient of the county’s J. R. Bernstein Mental Health Award.
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