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Jess C. Holm was a soldier, missionary medical doctor, medical director, educator, and writer who served in Far Eastern, Afro-Mideast, and Inter-American divisions.
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Dr. Edward H. Hon was a pioneer in electronic fetal heart-rate monitoring. His research resulted in a commercially-available monitor in the late 1960s that continues to be used throughout the world in the twenty-first century.
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Florence Muriel Howe was a nurse and missionary to China and Africa.
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Beatrice Florence James was an outstanding layperson, educator, businessperson, health worker, leader, evangelist, and a philanthropist from Nigeria.
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Dr. Howard James pioneered the establishment of the Adelaide Sanitarium in South Australia in 1908 and then the Warburton Sanitarium in Victoria in 1914.
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Niels B. Jörgensen, DDS, pioneered use of intravenous sedation combined with a local anesthetic in dental operations, a breakthrough that became known as the “Loma Linda Technique.”
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Guillermina Deggeller de Kalbermatter was a missionary nurse in Peru and Argentina, and wife of missionary Pedro Kalbermatter (1886-1968).
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John Harvey Kellogg was a Seventh-day Adventist physician, health promoter, nutritionist, inventor, author, eugenicist, and entrepreneur.
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Theresa Carolyn Kennedy was a renowned Adventist educator who led the Nursing Department at Southern Missionary College (now Southern Adventist University) at both campuses–Orlando, Florida, and Collegedale, Tennessee, and chaired the Nursing Department at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. While she was at Union College, Dr. Kennedy worked alongside her husband in an effort to build the nursing and accreditation programs there.
Mary Kilel was a Kenyan missionary nurse to Uganda, a lay evangelist, and a leader of the youth movement in Nandi in Western Kenya.
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Rachel “Anna” Knight was an African-American Adventist missionary nurse, teacher, colporteur, Bible worker, and conference official.
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Siegfried Arthur Kotz was a medical missionary and administrator in East and Central Africa, the United States, and Australia.
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Dr. Edwin Carl Kraft was a leading medical missionary to Africa who worked in several countries including Kenya, serving at the Kendu Adventist Hospital.
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Lauretta Eby Kress, the first female physician to practice in Montgomery County, Maryland, was widely respected for her skill as an obstetrician and her expertise in women’s health and prenatal care. She and her husband, Daniel H. Kress, founded Adventist sanitariums and promoted public health in England, Australia, and the United States.
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Maria Kudzielicz was an Adventist nursing pioneer and first director of the Adventist nursing school in Brazil.
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Herminia de Guzman Ladion was an educator, health lecturer, renowned author of books on natural remedies, writer of many health articles, and one of the pioneer advocates of a healthy lifestyle and natural remedies in the Philippines.
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Phebe Marietta Lamson was a pioneer Adventist physician, author, and health educator. She was the first female Adventist physician and vigorous advocate of Adventist health reform, which she termed the “hygienic medical system” and believed was “the best in the world.”
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Catharine “Kate” Lindsay was an early Seventh-day Adventist physician and medical missionary. An educator, professor, and author, Lindsay was a leader in the development of the first Seventh-day Adventist school of nursing.
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Dr. George Madgwick was the first full-time missionary physician who began his missionary work in Kenya.
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Elias George and Dorothy Olive Jones Marcus were pioneer medical missionaries in Africa.
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