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Creation Date
1920
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Dunham was born in Hartford. She earned a medical degree from Johns Hopkins. She later became of the first professors at a new established Yale Medical School pediatric department, eventually becoming associate clinical professor in 1927. Dunham was appointed chief of child development at the Children's Bureau and was the first woman pediatrician to receive the John Howland Medal. She devoted her career to improving the study of pediatrics and established national standards for the hospital care of newborn children.
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