sentences:  She was born in Gary, Indiana and received her BA in zoology from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana in 1948 and her MD degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis in 1952.She took a number of years off to raise a large family of 6 kids.She then returned to work in 1965–66 with Frederick Hecht in pediatrics and medical genetics at the University of Oregon Medical School, now called the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), in Portland where Dr. Magenis subsequently completed her residency training in Pediatrics and then did a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Genetics.