Abstract
Mary “Peggy” Crow was not one of those people who always wanted to be a doctor. “I absolutely was not on a track toward either medicine or research”, Crow, Physician-in-Chief at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), New York City, USA, and a past President of the American College of Rheumatology, told The Lancet. She took biology in 7th grade and loved it, Crow says, but at her private high school in Westchester County, NY, girls didn't get to take science—she “was not even offered science courses”, recalls Crow. In her freshman year of college, she won the school's biology prize, “which kind of shook me up”, says Crow, now a Co-Director of the Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Research at HSS and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at Weill Cornell Medical College. She began to think, “maybe this is something that I could be good at”. Lupus research centre fosters collaborationThe Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), New York, USA, has been a leader for decades in the study and treatment of rheumatological diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis. Full-Text PDF
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