"It was a truly amazing delivery, " said Dr. Karen Maples, chief of the hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department.

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That daunting statistic is one of the reasons Nadine Katz, senior associate dean, professor and director of medical education in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City, got interested in helping aspiring female med school professors achieve their goals.

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