Dora Chatterjee
| Dora Chatterjee | |
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| Born | Punjab, India |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | Dora Chatterjee-Rai |
| 🏫 Education | Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (MD 1901) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🏢 Organization | Denny Hospital for Women and Children, Hoshiarpur, India |
Dora Chatterjee, MD was the third Indian woman to graduate from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania and among the first women from India to earn a medical degree.[1][2][3]
Biography
Chatterjee, who has been described as a "Hindu Prince’s Daughter", was from Punjab, India.[1][2]
Chatterjee traveled to the US to study medicine at the end of the 19th century. In 1901, she graduated from Philadelphia’s Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, now Drexel University College of Medicine, making her the third Indian woman to graduate from the school.[1][2] The first and second graduates were Anandi Gopal Joshi, who was also the first Indian woman to attend an American medical school, and Gurubai Karmarkar.[1][2]
Chatterjee returned to India and established the Denny Hospital for Women and Children in Hoshiarpur.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Missing at the Smithsonian exhibition: 3 Indian women who graduated from medical school in the US in the 19th century". The American Bazaar. 2014-04-10. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 McNeill, Leila. "This 19th Century "Lady Doctor" Helped Usher Indian Women Into Medicine". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
- ↑ McCuskey, F. B. (2014-07-16). "Letter from F.B. McCuskey to Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania". South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). Retrieved 2021-04-18.
External links
- [Newspaper clipping, Dora Chatterjee's graduation from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Public Relations office records](https://idea.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/lca%3A1732#page/1/mode/1up) Archived 2021-12-21 at the Wayback Machine
- [Letter sent from India to Woman's Medical College reporting Chatterjee's change of address](https://www.saada.org/item/20140716-3629) Archived 2021-12-21 at the Wayback Machine South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
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