Biography
Jeppson earned a B.A. degree from Stanford University (first attending Wellesley College), her M.D. degree from New York University Medical School, had completed her residency in psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital. She graduated from and then worked in the William Alanson White Institute of Psychoanalysis until 1986.
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