Judith Martin Cadore (

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Martin; born 1957) is a U.S.

family practitioner Family medicine is a medical specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. The specialist, who is usually a primary care physician, is ...

who serves rural populations prone to health care disparities in the

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area. She was previously a faculty member at the San Jacinto Methodist Hospital and a clinical instructor and assistant community professor in the department of family medicine at the

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Life

Cadore was born in

in 1957 to Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Martin. Her grandmother, Virginia Brown Gaskin, served as one of her mentors. In 1976, when she graduated as the first African-American

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from

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, Cadore was denied the opportunity to give the traditional valedictory address and lead the class in the graduation ceremonies. Cadore attended

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(MIT) through the

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. She pursued a

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in chemistry and

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. While there, she received the Bolt Prize for Poetry, Prose and Manuscript and was named the Eugene McDermott Scholar. Graduating from MIT in 1980, she remained in

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to work as a research chemist for Water Associates while doing graduate work at

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. In 1984, she returned to

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to study medicine. She was a Kempner Scholar at the

. Completing medical school in 1990, Cadore remained at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for her

family practice Family medicine is a medical specialty that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders, diseases, and parts of the body. The specialist, who is usually a primary care physician, is ...

residency and continued there as a clinical instructor and assistant community professor in the department of family medicine. Later, in 1998, she left her faculty position at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital in order to pursue a private family practice. First working with an all-white, all-male practice in

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, Cadore later practiced with Edith Irby Jones in

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and is now a solo practitioner in Bay City. She serves rural populations prone to health care disparities. Cadore is the director of the "Sunshine Choir," a children's choir in the

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. She and her husband Michael, a professional chef and caterer she met in Boston, live in Houston with their three children. In 1998, she raised concerns regarding racial insensitivity to the board of the

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References

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