Textbook of women's health / editor-in-chief Lila A. Wallis,..., 2006
Information trouvée : Professeur de médecine à l'université de Cornell à New York (N. Y.) (1998)
Wikipedia, 2022-05-30
Information trouvée : Lila Amdurska Wallis (June 1, 1921 – January 3, 2022) was a Polish-born American physician
who was board-certified in internal medicine, hematology, and endocrinology/metabolism;
the only doctor in the United States to be board-certified in all three specialties.
Wallis was born in Grodno, Poland, in 1921 and initially began her studies at the
University of Stefan Batory in Wilno, Poland. After coming to the United States, Wallis
graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in chemistry in 1947. She then earned her
M.D. at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1951. Her postgraduate
residency training in internal medicine was done at The New York Hospital-Cornell
Medical Center, where she specialized in hematology and endocrinology/metabolism.
Following the completion of her residency in 1956, she established her own internal
medicine practice in New York where she practiced for 40 years.