It Takes Two M arie and Pierre Curie. Lewis and Clark. Lennon and McCartney. Schnaper and Slezak.
Some pairs change history.
Others change lives one at a time. Lauren Schnaper and Sheri Slezak team up to help women with breast cancer. But Schnaper wasn t on the fast track to becoming a surgeon. She laughed when reminded of the story of her misspent youth, a story that has grown to almost legendary proportions. Perusing her curriculum vitae, one sees a gap between the time she was awarded her undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland in 1971 and the time she entered medical school, also at the University of Maryland, in 1978.