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Gretchen Purcell Jackson, MD, PhD, and Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, are honored among top health care leaders in the 2021 “Women to Watch” by Nashville Medical News.
Physician-scientists Jackson and Winkfield, along with 10 other leaders, were honored for their expertise and efforts in advancing health care at a recent breakfast hosted by the health care-focused newspaper.
Jackson is associate professor of Pediatric Surgery at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and vice president and chief health and science officer of IBM Watson Health.
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Winkfield is executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, professor of Radiation Oncology and Ingram Professor of Cancer Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and professor of Medicine at Meharry Medical College. She is a recent appointee to the National Cancer Advisory Board.
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