Dr. L. Ruth Guy, who co-founded the School of Medical Technology that became part of the UT Southwestern School of Health Professions in 1969, was a noted innovator in medical technology and blood banking. Dr. Guy was the first Chairman of the Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, and was an associate professor of pathology in the 1970s and 1980s. Dr. Guy came from Parkland Hospital in the last half of the 1950s, and she helped develop a kit for use in investigating sexual assaults. She retired in 1982, but continued at UT Southwestern as a Professor Emeritus of Pathology.
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