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Anna Lee Tingle Fisher , M.D. (née Sims) (born August 24, 1949, in New York City) is an American...

Anna Lee Tingle Fisher , M.D. (née Sims) (born August 24, 1949, in New York City) is an American chemist and a NASA astronaut. Although Fisher was born in New York, she grew up in San Pedro, California and considers it her hometown. She is a 1967 graduate of San Pedro High School. She went on to received a bachelor of science in Chemistry in 1971 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Fisher then stayed on at UCLA and started graduate school in chemistry in the field of x-ray crystallographic studies of metallocarbonanes. The following year she moved to the UCLA medical school and received her doctor of Medicine degree in 1976. She did an internship at Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California in 1977. She chose to specialize in emergency medicine and worked in several hospitals in the Los Angeles area. Fisher later went back to graduate school in chemistry and received a master of science in chemistry from UCLA in 1987. She was married to fellow astronaut, William Frederick Fisher. They have two daughters, Kristin Anne (b. July 29, 1983) and Kara Lynne (b. January 10, 1989). Fisher was selected as an astronaut candidate in January 1978. In August 1979, she