Kathryn Stephenson

Kathryn Stephenson

Kathryn Lyle Stephenson (July 30, 1912 – October 18, 1993), was the first American woman to be a board-certified plastic surgeon and the first woman to be editor of the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. She contributed significantly to the development of plastic surgery between the 1940s and 1980s, and was named the American Association of Plastic Surgeons' 1977 Woman of the Year.

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