Josefa Zaratt
Puerto Rican black female physician
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Josefa Zaratt (also Zarratt) (March 19, 1871 – August 4, 1962) was the first Black woman to graduate from Tufts Medical School.[1] She was one of the earliest Black women physicians in the United States.[2]
Josefa Zaratt | |
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Dr. Zaratt in staff portrait of Douglass Hospital | |
| Born | March 19, 1871 |
| Died | August 4, 1962 (aged 91) Bronx, New York, USA |
| Alma mater | Tufts University School of Medicine (MD) |
| Occupation | Doctor |
Life
Zaratt was born in 1871 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[3]
Zaratt studied at Tufts University School of Medicine,[4] graduating in 1905.[5] She then returned to Puerto Rico,[6] but was denied a license to practice medicine there. She returned to the continental United States[7] and passed the examination of the State Board of Registration in Medicine in Massachusetts.[3]
She worked at Douglass Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1910.[8] By 1923 she was practicing medicine in Springfield, Massachusetts[9] and in 1932 she lived in Boston, Massachusetts.
Zaratt died on August 4, 1962, at Fordham Hospital in the Bronx, New York. aged 91.[3] She was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Greenburgh, New York.
