Today, Cooper joins our colleagues across the country in celebrating National Women Physicians Day, which is the birthday of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States in 1849.
Women represent nearly half of all medical school graduates and assistant professors at academic institutions. Here at Cooper, 44% of our physicians are women. Women in Medicine (WIM) at Cooper, an inclusive group of providers and educators at Cooper University Health Care and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, reached out across our organization to recognize some of Cooper’s exceptional women physicians. Read more.