182:(UCSD) in 1987. Two years later, she was recruited back to UCLA as the first female surgery faculty member. As the first female chief of vascular surgery, Freischlag was responsible for coordinating educational programs and conducting research, coordinating patient care and performing operations at the UCLA Medical Center. She shortly left UCLA to become an associate professor of vascular surgery at the
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