The National Library of Medicine has unveiled an exhibit honoring more than 300 female physicians who, throughout history, have influenced and enhanced the practice of medicine.
One of those featured is a faculty member at ETSU’s James H. Quillen College of Medicine.
She is Dr. Susan Potts Sloan, an internist with ETSU Physicians and Associates and associate director of the internal medicine residency program at the Quillen College of Medicine.
Last week, Sloan joined other featured physicians at the opening of “Changing the Face of Medicine,” housed at the National Institutes of Health headquarters in Bethesda, Md.
Organizers selected Sloan for the exhibit as a tribute to her community service efforts that began when she was a young child.
Throughout her life, she has done extensive volunteer work, including tutoring unwed mothers, working with Laotian women who had escaped from being tortured, and organizing health care services for women with no medical insurance.
In addition, she founded a non-profit organization that assisted females at risk for pre-term labor.
She was also honored for her dedication to becoming a physician despite many obstacles.
In 1994, on the day her youngest child went to kindergarten for the first time, Sloan began medical school at the University of Minnesota.
After graduating, she trained in internal medicine at Berkshire Medical Center.
She joined the ETSU faculty in fall 2002 and is a member of the American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, and Association of American Indian Physicians.

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