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Joyce Nichols

1940–2012

United States

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Joyce Nichols (née Clayton, June 28, 1940 - July 29, 2012) was an American physician assistant (PA). Nichols was the first woman and black woman to be certified as a PA, graduating from the Duke University Medical Center program in 1970.

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