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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Janice P. Nimura, author of The Doctors Blackwell, will celebrate Elizabeth Blackwell Day at Upstate Medical University
<u>Wednesday, Feb. 7 at noon</u> in the Ninth Floor Auditorium of Weiskotten Hall.
<b>The event is open to the public</b>.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin: 0in;" class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Nimura will discuss her book, The Doctors Blackwell, which tells of the tenacity and vision of sisters, Elizabeth
and Emily, who became pioneering physicians.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Elizabeth Blackwell earned
her medical degree in 1849 from what is now Upstate Medical University becoming the first woman physician in the United States; Emily received her medical degree in 1854 from what is now Case Western Reserve University.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The
Doctors Blackwell was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in biography.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This
year, 2024, marks the 175 anniversary of Elizabeth Blackwell receiving her MD from what is now Upstate.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cosponsors
of the Nimura’s visit are the student chapter of the American Women Medical Association and AMWA President Sabrina Sun and the Office of the President”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sandra J. Jarvis<br>
Sr. Administrative Assistant<br>
Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology<br>
SUNY Upstate Medical University<br>
4265 Weiskotten Hall<br>
Syracuse, NY. 13210<br>
315-464-5127<br>
Fax: 315-464-8750<br>
jarviss@upstate.edu<br>
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