Achievement: Dr. Antonia Novello was the first woman and the first Hispanic to become Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Novello's favorite aunt died of kidney failure during Novello's first year of medical school. She resolved to learn more about the disease and the factors that decide who receives a kidney transplant.

Dr. Antonia Novello was the first woman and the first Hispanic to become Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Novello's favorite aunt died of kidney failure during Novello's first year of medical school. She resolved to learn more about the disease and the factors that decide who receives a kidney transplant.

In 1973, Novello and her husband moved to Washington D.C. to begin her residency in pediatric nephrology at Georgetown University School of Medicine Hospital until 1976. [5] She earned her Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 1982 and her Doctorate in Public Health also from Johns Hopkins in 2000.

She studied at the University of Puerto Rico and Johns Hopkins University, then became a pediatric nephrologist. She soon discovered that the emotional toll of direct patient care wasn't for her. "When the pediatrician cries as much as the parents do, then you know it's …

Trained as a pediatric nephrologist and in public health, Novello became a clinical professor of pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital in 1986, after working in private practice and later in the U.S. Public Health Service.

Dr. Novello, a board-certified pediatrician, is clinical professor of pediatrics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and the Unifonned Services University of the Health Sciences. She is also adjunct professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases at the University of

2000年3月24日 · As an intern at the university’s pediatric nephrology unit, where she treated children with kidney diseases, Antonia Novello experienced a harbinger of future success. She was named Intern of the Year, the first woman at the University of …

Pediatric nephrologist. In 1976, Novello opened her own private practice in Springfield, Virginia, where she worked as a pediatrician. However, she soon realized that she lacked adequate emotional detachment for her work so she terminated her practice.

2018年5月17日 · Novello's was in pediatrics, and she completed further training in her specialty, pediatric nephrology, at Georgetown University Hospital in 1975. Her childhood illness had made her an unusually compassionate physician, but would also be her undoing.

Antonia Coello Novello, pediatric nephrologist, former state health commissioner, former United States Surgeon General. Achievements include being the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as surgeon general.