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Jennifer M. Peña

Peña was the first — and is still the only — Latina to serve as a White House physician. She was also the first Latina to be the primary doctor of a vice president. A true heroine, the Puerto Rican doctor left her job at a health insurance company to go back to working at a hospital to help with the COVID-19 response when the pandemic started.

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