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Pamela Whitney, 57, innovator in helping troubled families

By Maggie Cassidy
Globe Correspondent / December 6, 2010

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Pamela Whitney, who helped create one of the nation’s first domestic violence units as an assistant commissioner of the Department of Children and Families, died Nov. 8 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston from complications of acute erythroid leukemia while battling myelodysplasia. (Full article: 910 words)

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