She was the first woman to receive an endowed professorship at Stanford University when she was named the Katharine Dexter and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor of Pediatrics.
[3] Her aunts included Tehilla Lichtenstein, a cofounder of the Jewish Science movement with her husband Morris Lichtenstein, and Tamar de Sola Pool, who was president of the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America and was married to Jewish scholar David de Sola Pool.
[4] After completing her residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Gross served as an instructor at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and joined the faculty of Stanford Medical School.
She spent a year at the University of Pavia before associate professor of pediatrics and co-director of the human genetics division at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
[1] In 1966, Gross returned to San Francisco to become of chief of pediatrics at the Mount Zion Hospital and focused on community and social medicine.