Article: Margaret R. Abernathy Washin ... [Correction 4/1/09]

Margaret R. Abernathy, 82, a neurologist who was the first director of the breast cancer screening center at Georgetown University Medical Center, died March 16 of a cerebral aneurysm at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pa. She moved from Vienna to Swarthmore, Pa., in 2000.

Dr. Abernathy, who fulfilled a lifelong goal by becoming a doctor in her late 30s, spent 30 years with Georgetown's neurology department. She was considered a pioneer in the use of infrared thermography, or heat-based imaging, to detect breast cancer and cerebrovascular disease. She was a founding member of the American Academy of Thermology and lectured worldwide about her medical specialty.

She retired from ...

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