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The leaders of the Vietnam-USA Society; the Phan Anh Foundation and the delegation of the Ministry of Science and Technology visited the grave of Prof. Judith Ladinsky - a sworn friend of the Vietnamese people. (Photo: Vietnamese - USA Magazine)

Professor Judith L. Ladinsky was born on June 16, 1938 in Los Angeles City, California State, the USA. She grew up in New York City, received an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, and a doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin.

She was a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Director of the Medical Science subcommittee of the US Commission on scientific cooperation with Vietnam. She was called "Madame Vietnam" and lauded as "the best-known American in Vietnam".

When he first came to Vietnam in 1978, when Vietnam and the United States had not normalized their relations, at that time Professor Ladinsky immediately had sympathy and goodwill towards the Vietnamese country and people. In 1980, she became the President of the Medical Department of the U.S. Committee for Scientific Cooperation with Vietnam following the invitation of Dr. Edward Cooperman - Chairman of the U.S. Committee for Scientific Cooperation with Vietnam (USCV) at that time. In 1984, after Dr. Cooperman was assassinated, she bravely took over for him to become the Chairwoman of the USCV and determined to continue his unfinished work.

Since then, Professor Ladinsky had made more than 100 trips to Vietnam. Every time she cames to Vietnam, she brought a lot of tools, medical equipment, books and journals of science, medicine, education to donate to hospitals, schools, research centers and many other places in Vietnam.

Professor Judith Ladinsky had called on scientists and American people to suport and help greatly to Vietnam.

With tireless efforts, she had raised millions of dollars in medical research and humanitarian projects. During a period of decades, Professor Ladinsky had called on scientists and the American people to support and help a lot to Vietnam. She paid special attention to the rural health sector and the issue lacking of doctors in the countryside. She founded rural health projects, public health care, pediatric primary health care, anatomy, nutrition, HIV / AIDS, cancer treatment, and provided equipment and medical supplies to help Vietnam.

She also contributed to the extensive research on Japanese diabetes, malaria and encephalitis in Vietnam. She also facilitated many Vietnamese doctors and nurses to go to the United States for practice to improve their qualifications and helped hundreds of Vietnamese students, learners and researchers win scholarships to study and do research at US universities. Every two years, she organized TOEFL exams in Vietnam for more than 1,200 Vietnamese students, more than half of whom had gone to the United States to study. She also helped bring many children with cancer and scalded patients to medical facilities in the United States to save their lives when the domestic medical level was not met that time.

On January 12, 2012, Professor Judith L. Ladinsky breathed her last at the University of Wisconsin Hospital after a stroke. The last wish of Professor Judith Ladinsky was that her ashes would be buried in Vietnam - a country that she loved wholeheartedly and devoted all her scientific career to. On July 22, 2013, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the ceremony to receive the ashes of Professor Judith Ladinsky was done and her grave is now located at Vinh Hang (Immortality) Park Cemetery, Ba Vi, Hanoi city.

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