Dr. Beatrice C. Lampkin grew up in Alabama and was stricken with Polio in 1940. Her grandfather, a doctor, inspired her to become a physician and in 1960 she completed her M.D. at the Medical College of Alabama. She came to Cincinnati Children’s in 1963 as a resident and returned in 1965 after doing a fellowship in Los Angeles. In 1973 Dr. Lampkin became the first female director of the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics and the first female direc