Influenced by an enduring memory.(Special Report: 40 Under 40)(Kathie-Ann Joseph, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons)(Brief Article)(Biography)

Crain's New York Business, January, 2005 by Scott, Gale

Byline: gale scott Kathie-Ann Joseph, 34 Director of breast cancer surgical research Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Tears spill unbidden into her tea as Dr. Kathie-Ann Joseph recounts her swift ascent in surgery. She's come to the part in her story where, a day after taking sophomore midterms at Harvard, she learned that her 50-year-old mother had died of cervical cancer.

Her family withheld the news until exams were over. It was a sad turn in a West Indian family's New York City success story, starring an aspiring doctor who excelled from her Stuyvesant High School days through graduation from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Joseph's father was a manager for Pan Am. Her mother was a nurse. They...

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