Doris L. Wethers

Doris L. Wethers (b. 1927) is an African American pediatrician known for her research on sickle-cell disease.

She graduated magna cum laude from Queens College in 1948. She earned her M.D. at Yale University School of Medicine in 1952. Wethers spent ten years as a pediatrician in private practice. Her office was located next to the office of her father, physician William Wethers. She became the first black attending physician at Saint Luke's Hospital in 1958. She served as medical director for Speedwell Services for Children from 1961 to 1973, and as director of pediatrics at Knickerbocker Hospital from 1965 to 1973, where she opened a program for sickle-cell disease patients. She served director of pediatrics at Sydenham Hospital in New York, from 1969-1974, and opened another sickle-cell program. She received a grant for research on sickle-cell disease in 1979.

Wethers conducts research at St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center, and conducts in-patient rounds for medical students learning about sickle-cell disease.^[1]

Works

• "Doris L. Wethers". Microsoft Academic Search. Retrieved 2015-02-26. 

See also

• Sickle cell disease
• Angella D. Ferguson

References