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Tufts experts offer evidence-based tips for helping your kids thrive—now and into the future

A biomedical engineer and a neuroscientist have teamed up to advance epilepsy research and push for more effective treatments for patients.

Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers.

During a time when Black and female physicians were a rarity, Josefa Zaratt carved her own path.

With her M.D. from Tufts, Ruth Mack Brunswick made a name for herself in Vienna and the new field of psychoanalysis.

Ruth Marguerite Easterling, M1921, was one of the first Black female students at Tufts University School of Medicine and went on to become a celebrated pathologist.

Lloyd Williams, M08, GBS08, developed a passion for providing care abroad while studying medicine at Tufts, and now travels regularly to developing nations to provide cataract and corneal surgeries

Nearly 100 years ago, Shizue Komu came to Tufts School of Medicine from her native Hawaii with a dream to become the first woman of Japanese descent to practice medicine with a degree there

"My favorite aspect of the program was how collaborative all the students were during the didactic year. PA school is already difficult—why make it more difficult by creating a competitive environment?"