appointed as one of the five U.S. delegates to the World Health Organization’s twentieth assembly in Geneva, Switzerland as well as the D.C. Commission on the Status of Women, which she chaired from 1971 to 1974 (Brandman, 2021). Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee succumbed to congestive heart failure and passed away on September 14, 1980, at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington D.C. (Mack, 2021). References References Further reading External links Changing the Face of Medicine - National Library of Medicine Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed Official Website of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated: Presidents Presidents of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 1898 births 1980 deaths African-American physicians 20th-century American women physicians 20th-century American physicians American gynecologists American obstetricians Howard University faculty People from Norfolk, Virginia Simmons University alumni Tufts University School of Medicine alumni African-American activists Howard University College of Medicine alumni African-American women physicians 20th-century African-American women American women academics Alpha Kappa Alpha presidents