Mary Ella Mascia Pierpont: Geneticist, scientist, mentor, friend (1945–2020)

Abstract

Mary Ella spent the next 4 years of her medical training in several different positions, as residency and fellowship training were at that time far less regimented than now. Her first 2 years were spent at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC, where she completed an Internship and year of Pediatrics focused on Development and Clinical Genetics. She then made what proved to be her most important move to the University of Minnesota, spending first a year in Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and then a final year in Pediatrics. By this