(Dr. Denmark has passed away.  See my first reference to her  here.)

A Heart for Healing – A Look at the Life of Dr. Leila Denmark

“Even as a youngster, Dr. Leila Daughtry Denmark (’18) was a healer, treating sick animals on her family’s Portal, Ga. farm. The third woman to graduate from the Medical College of Georgia, Denmark’s love for the field of medicine was only matched by her desire to make sure she did her best to help children.

Until her retirement at the age of 103, Denmark treated thousands of children in her private pediatric practice and also as a volunteer for more than 50 years at the Central Presbyterian Baby Clinic in downtown Atlanta, where she helped develop the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine.”

For more, click through here.

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