Doris Louise Wethers (December 14, 1927 – January 28, 2019) was an American pediatrician known for her research on sickle-cell disease.
at Yale University School of Medicine in 1952 (becoming the third black woman to do so),[2] after which Wethers spent ten years as a pediatrician in private practice.
Wethers also co-founded the Foundation for Research and Education in Sickle Cell Disease with Drs.
[1] In 1987, Wethers acted as the chairwoman of a panel on sickle-cell screening commissioned by the National Institutes of Health.
[5] The panel recommended that all newborn babies, regardless of ethnicity, be tested routinely for sickle-cell anemia; by 2006 this practice had been implemented in all fifty states.