Anita Figueredo

[2] Anita Figueredo was one of the first two women surgical residents at Memorial Hospital for Cancer in New York, during World War II when many male medical students were serving in the military.

[3] While she was a young doctor on staff at Memorial in New York, Figueredo was one of the Pan-American women delegates to formulate a declaration of human rights for the Paris Treaty process in 1946.

[5] As a philanthropist, Figueredo co-founded Friends of the Poor in 1982,[6] a charity to bring food, clothing and medical care to underserved places, initially in Baja California;[7] the organization later maintained projects on three continents.

[9] In 1954, Figueredo was honored by Pope Pius XII with a papal medal, the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, for her service work.

[13] Anita Figueredo died in 2010, at age 93, at home in La Jolla, California, after a cerebral hemorrhage.