Maria Fischer-Slyzh (1922 to 2012) was a pediatrician of Ukrainian community life in North America and a major philanthropist. Born in Kolomyia, then in the Second Polish Republic, she moved with her family to Lviv and later fled to Germany, where she graduated from the medical faculty of the University of Munich in 1949 and completed a dissertation on tuberculosis in the lymph nodes of the lungs in 1950. She moved to the United States, trained in Brooklyn hospitals, was licensed in Illinois in 1954 and passed examinations in pediatrics in 1960. She then ran a private practice in Kankakee for 31 years. After her husband, the physician Rudolf Fischer, died in 1982 she settled in Toronto, joined the board of the Ukrainian Medical Association of North America and gave money and effort to Canadian-Ukrainian library centers in Ukraine, to archaeological excavations at Baturyn and to the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. A pedagogical prize in Ukraine bears her name. This entry records her career and is not medical advice.
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Maria Fischer-Slyzh (September 13, 1922, February 13, 2012) was a pediatrician
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She was one of the initiators and supporters of a number of projects in Ukraine
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The Triumph International Literary Prize (2002)
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The Order of Princess Olga III degree (2009)
In Group: Pediatric Physicians and Child Care Authors, In the USA
She soon improved her skills and passed the exams before the National Association of Medical Examiners: in 1960, in pediatrics, in 1962, for foreign doctors, medical examinations in New York State.
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