Dr. Tao ig a woman of considerable administrative ability, having come from" a family of distinguished administrators. Her grandfather was viceroy of the Liang Kwang Provinces of Kuangtung and Kwangs! and her father for many years. was Governor of Kansu. She" received her education at Ginling College in Nanking, after which she" was awarded' a Barbour scholarship " in Michigan University, and was only Chinese to" win fellowship in bacterial Johns Hopkins Universit bbe the leading medical institution in the United States.
In America she hold the coveted position as Senior Bacteriologist in the Michigan State Department Health. On her return to China she was for two years attached to the Woman's Medical College in Shanghai as professor of bacteriology and parasitology, but she gave up this Chair to assume a position of greater Usefulness (0 the country as technical expert and vice-director in the National Epidemic Prevention Bureau, where her researches and studies on typhoid and other diseases are being recognized both at home and abroad, and where she controls a staff of Almost a hundred employees, Dr. Tao is expected to return to China by next spring, in time to take part in the biennial conference of the Chinese Medical Association and the Chinese Society' "of Pathology and Microbiology to be held in Shanghai (rom. April 1-7, 1937, on the completion -of the Shanghai Medical Centee,
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