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Koprowska, Irena was born on May 12, 1917 in Warsaw, Poland. Daughter of Henryk and Eugenia Grasberg. came to the United States, 1944.
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Irena Koprowska's autobiography chronicles the life and struggles of an immigrant woman who successfully pursued a career while raising a family. In the process, she became an award-winning physician, professor, and research pioneer at a time in history when it was believed a woman's place was in the home. Born in Warsaw in 1917, Irena Koprowska was married, pregnant, and a physician by the age of twenty-two. Forced to flee the Nazis, first in Poland and then in France, she fled to Brazil in 1940. Four years later she immigrated to the United States. Unable to speak English, she started her academic career as a volunteer at the Department of Pathology at Cornell University Medical College. During the years of her subsequent Research Fellowships at Cornell University Medical College, she worked with George N. Papanicolaou, inventor of the Pap smear. The two co-authored a case report of the earliest diagnosis of lung cancer by a sputum smear. She was recognized as "Woman Physician of the Year" by a Gold Medicus Award of the Polish American Society in 1977 and received the Papanicolaou Award of the American Society of Cytology in 1985.
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Koprowska, Irena was born on May 12, 1917 in Warsaw, Poland. Daughter of Henryk and Eugenia Grasberg. came to the United States, 1944.
Bachelor, Popielewska/Roszkowska, Warsaw, 1934. Doctor of Medicine, Warsaw University, 1939.
Intern in medicine, Villejuif Lunatic Asylum, Seine, France, 1940; assistant pathologist, Rio de Janeiro City Hospital, Miguel Couto, Brazil, 1942-1944; research fellow department pathology, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York City, 1945-1946; research assistant department pharmacology, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York City, 1949-1950; research fellow department of anatomy, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York City, 1949-1954; research fellow applied immunology, Public Health Research Institute of The City of New York, 1946-1947; assistant pathologist, New York Infirmary for Women and Children, New York City, 1947-1949; assistant professor department pathology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, 1954-1957; associate professor pathology, director cytology laboratory/School Cytotech., Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1957-1964; professor pathology director cytology laboratory, school cytotechnology, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, 1964-1970; professor pathology, director cytology laboratory, Temple University School Medical, Philadelphia, 1970-1987; professor emerita, Temple University School Medical, Philadelphia, since 1987. Consultant World Health Organization, Switzerland, Egypt, Iran, Latin American, India, 1960-1985, ArmedForces Institute Pathology, Air Force Cytology Rescreen Project, 1979-1980.
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Fellow American Society Clinical Pathologists (emeritus), College American Pathologists (emeritus), College Physicians of Philadelphia, International Academy Cytology (honorary), International Academy Pathology (emeritus). Member American Association for Cancer Research Inc. (emeritus), American Association Pathologists Inc.
(emeritus), American Medical Women's Association, American Society Cytology (life, Papanicolaou award 1985), American Society Experimental Pathology, Argentinian Society Cytology (honorary), Pathological Society Philadelphia.
Married Hilary Koprowski, July 14, 1938. Children: Claude, Christopher.