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Penny Gustafson Miller was an Adventist nurse, educator, and advocate for professional women in the Adventist Church.
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Dorthea or “Thea” Nielsen was a Danish missionary nurse and instructor who served in Kenya at the Kendu Mission Hospital before moving to Nyanchwa.
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Karen Nielsen was a Danish missionary nurse and medical trainer who served faithfully in Kenya at the Kendu Mission Hospital for nearly 30 years in continued service in Kenya.
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Dr. Carl Ottosen was a founder, promoter, and leader of the Seventh-day Adventist health work in Scandinavia. Together with his wife, Johanne Pauline, he founded Frydenstrand Sanatorium and Skodsborg Sanatorium in Denmark, following Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s model from Battle Creek in America. His influence and groundbreaking work set a new trend for preventive and curative health work in Denmark and earned him the respect of his colleagues and the order of Knight of Dannebrog from the Danish king.2 He was a strong supporter and participant of the Adventist church work in his home country, Denmark.
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David Paulson was a medical missionary physician and social reformer who, with his wife, Dr. Mary Wild Paulson, led an array of humanitarian endeavors in Chicago and founded Hinsdale Sanitarium in the city’s western suburbs.
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Maui Pomare was the first Maori New Zealander to qualify as a physician.
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Eulalia Richards, M.D., was a pioneering medical doctor who contributed to the health ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia and beyond as a public speaker and writer on medical, temperance, and well-being issues particularly to do with women’s and children’s health.
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George H. Rue, MD, missionary physician, led in developing widely respected Adventist medical institutions in Korea despite repeated setbacks and forbidding circumstances during the years of World War II and the Korean War.
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Riley Russell (露說, Rho Seol) was the first medical missionary to enter Korea as a medical doctor. He devoted himself to missionary work and medical service in Korea for 15 years as the director of Soonan Dispensary-Hospital, the head of the Workers’ Training School, and the director of the West Chosen Mission.
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Ajax Walter César Silveira was a physician, organizer and cofounder of drug/alcohol rehabilitation clinics, promoter of the “Quit Smoking 5-Day Plan,” and health field editor.
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Gordon and Maud Smith were pioneer medical missionaries in the South Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand. Several years after Maud died, Gordon married Vera Constance Aldred. Together they taught schools and worked with the Maoris in New Zealand.
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Lillis Adora Wood Starr was a Seventh-day Adventist physician, the first female medical doctor authorized to practice in Mexico, and an active member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
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Kenneth Sturdevant and his wife, Evelyn, devoted their retirement years to medical mission work in Africa (Kenya and Tanganyika), New Guinea, and Thailand.
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Dr. Stanley G. Sturges achieved national recognition as an athlete and as a pioneering physician in Nepal.
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Dr. Joeli Taoi, commonly called “Dokta belong mifala” by the people of Vanuatu, was a missionary doctor in the Pacific Islands from 1958 to 1995. He was especially well known as a pioneer missionary doctor to Aore in New Hebrides (1958–1976).
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Shuichi Tatsuguchi’s life was one of significant service to Adventist medical evangelism in the United States and Japan. From the 1890s through the 1930s, Tatsuguchi’s commitment to Adventism was apparent in both his personal life and in his work in Hiroshima, where his faith increasingly placed him—and his family—at odds with Japanese authorities in the decades leading into the Asia-Pacific War. “[O]ne of the first Japanese” to covert to Adventism, Tatsuguchi and his family became key figures in Adventist communities on both sides of the Pacific.
Ruth Janetta Temple, M.D., was the first Black graduate from what is today the Loma Linda University School of Medicine, the first Black female physician licensed to practice in the state of California, and a lifelong public health crusader.
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David M. Traill is believed to have been the first Seventh-day Adventist person on the island of Puerto Rico because he had been sent by the U.S. Army as a military medic before Pastor Albert M. Fischer was sent by the Adventist Church as a missionary. Traill became interested in sharing the Adventist gospel in this unentered field.
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Martin Vinkel and his wife Sarah pioneered Changchun Dispensary and Mukden Sanitarium in Manchuria and, later, the Northwest China Sanitarium and Hospital, Lanchow, Gansu Province, and a medical mission outpost at Tachienlu, Sichuan Province, for the benefit of Tibetans.
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Pitt Abraham Wade was an entrepreneurial physician whose endeavors to establish a sanitarium in Colorado during the first decade of the twentieth century entailed substantial interaction with Ellen G. White.