Individual of the Week - Teneley Albright
"Whatever you do, if you do it the best you can, has a relation to
whatever else you do. People have said to me, 'What connection does
surgery have to figure skating?'"
In 1956, only months after winning an Olympic Gold
Medal, Tenley Albright entered Harvard Medical School. Today she is a
surgeon, pioneering new techniques for the detection and treatment of
cancer. Dr. Albright is based in Boston and is a member of the Board of
Regents of the National Library of Medicine. She is also a member of
the U.S. Olympic Committee executive committee, the American College of
Sports Medicine, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport,
and the American Cancer Society's board of directors. She has also been
inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Association's Hall of Fame.
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