Virginia Kneeland Frantz, MD — education (teaching), surgery (pathlogy)
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Dr. Virginia Kneeland Frantz (1896–1967) is remembered as a surgical pathologist and an innovative teacher, and her work both in the laboratory and the classroom earned her numerous awards. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, she made a series of discoveries regarding the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid, breast, and pancreatic tumors, and in 1959, she published an account of pancreatic tumors for the Armed Forces Atlas of Tumor Pathology , which soon became the standard text on the subject.
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