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Nanette Kass Wenger, MD — internal medicine (cardiology), education (teaching)

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Heart disease has traditionally been understood as primarily affecting men. Dr. Nanette Kass Wenger (b. 1930) was among the first physicians to focus on coronary heart disease in women, and to evaluate the different risk factors and features of the condition in women and men.

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