The First Women Graduate from Harvard School of Dental Medicine

In 1955, Aina M. Auskaps and Aina M. Meierovics graduated from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, making them the first women to graduate from the four-year DMD program. They were the first women DMD applicants to HSDM (in 1952), despite the Faculty of Medicine’s having voted to accept women into the dental school in 1943. Dr. Auskaps and Dr. Meierovics were both born in Latvia and obtained dental degrees in Germany before coming to HSDM. Learn more about them under Key People.