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= Clara Raquel Epstein = Epstein is the first Mexican-American woman to be trained and certified in neurological surgery in the United States.

She is the youngest recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in Neurosurgery.

= Professional Roles = In June 2006, the  American Medical Association (AMA) appointed Clara Raquel Epstein, MD, as a Charter Steering Committee Member of the American Medical Association Minority Actions Consortium Hispanic Physician Outreach Initiative.

Epstein was one of the first of ten physicians selected nationally to take part in this initiative.

Epstein is on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Neurological and Othopaedic Surgeons, was president of the Academy in 2013 and she was joint president of the Boulder County Medical Society in 2013.