When women with lupus want to have children, they turn to Dr. Eliza Chakravarty It started with the bulletin board. There, on a framed, cork rectangle that now hangs on the south wall of her office, Dr. Eliza Chakravarty began pinning up photos and cards featuring the children she calls “my babies.” And most were very […]
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Back On Her Feet
A mystery illness robbed a Tulsa teacher of life as she knew it. An OMRF physician helped her get it back. The morning light cast a soft glow around the curtains covering the window. A food service worker pushed racks of trays past the door, leaving the smell of coffee and eggs in its […]
Dr. Everything
It may sound like the set-up to an old joke. But for Judith James, the question of how to extract venom from a fanged spider roughly the size of a tea saucer was no laughing matter. In zoology class at Oklahoma Baptist University, each student received an animal to study and care for throughout the […]
Live Long and Prosper
By Michael Bratcher Growing up, Judith James rarely passed up an episode of Star Trek. From her living room in Pond Creek, she sat transfixed as Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise boldly went where no man had gone before. For the future physician and medical researcher, the workings of […]
