Category: Medical History

Text Women's History Month - March 2023 over a background with many cartoon women

Celebrate Women’s History Month

by on March 8, 2023 9:00 am
March is Women’s History Month! This year we are sharing information about three incredible women in the history of medicine. Read below to learn more about Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler–the first Black woman to receive an MD in the US, Dr. Elizabeth Yates–one of the first women to graduate from Stanford Medicine’s predecessor, Cooper Medical… Read more Celebrate Women’s History Month
Hispanic Heritage Month in colorful text with a border pattern in yellow and red. There is also an portrait of Mariano Edward Gonzalez, one of the first Latino graduates of Cooper Medical College

Hispanic Heritage Month

by on October 7, 2021 1:43 pm
Celebrate Hispanic heritage month by learning more about Mariano Edward Gonzalez, one of the first Latino graduates of Cooper Medical College, which later became Stanford University’s School of Medicine. Gonzalez was a member of the Cooper Medical College Class of 1883. He wrote his medical degree thesis on pneumonia. The image below is the first… Read more Hispanic Heritage Month