María Elisa Rivera de Díaz
Born
María Elisa Rivera y León

January 20, 1887
Hatillo, Puerto Rico
DiedMarch 12, 1981 (1981-03-13) (aged 94)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Alma materWomen's Medical College of Baltimore
OccupationDoctor
SpouseJosé E. Díaz García

María Elisa Rivera y León de Díaz (born 1887 in Hatillo, Puerto Rico) was one of the first four women from Puerto Rico to earn a medical degree; the other three were Ana Janer in 1909, Palmira Gatell in 1910, and Dolores Piñero in 1913.[1][2][3] Ana Janer and Rivera graduated in the same medical school class in 1909 and thus could both be considered the first female Puerto Rican physician.[4]

Rivera graduated from the Women's Medical College of Baltimore, and started her medical practice that same year.[1][3][5] She was the first Puerto Rican woman to graduate medical school with the highest honors.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "La mujer puertorriqueña en el siglo XX". Monografias.com. 3 January 2006. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
  2. ↑ Women's Military Memorial Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  3. 1 2 "LA MUJER EN LAS PROFESIONES DE SALUD (1898–1930); By: YAMILA AZIZE VARGAS1 and LUIS ALBERTO AVILES; PRHSJ Vol, 9 No. 1
  4. ↑ http://prhsj.rcm.upr.edu/index.php/prhsj/article/viewFile/715/558
  5. ↑ Lapan, Tovin (2013-10-14). "Somos Primos". Somos Primos. Retrieved 2015-03-22.
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