Virginia Apgar was The First Woman CHANGING THE FACE OF MEDICINE.
Dr Virginia Apgar was both a pioneer as a woman and for her numerous contributions to medicine.
“Women are liberated from the time they leave the womb” she once said
- In 1933, Virginia Apgar became one of the first women to graduate from Columbia University with a medical degree.
- Dr Apgar 1938 was the first woman to head a specialty division at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.
- Dr Virginia Apgar 1949 was the first woman to become a full professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
- In 1959 Dr. Virginia Apgar first presented the scientific method for evaluating a newborn’s transition to life outside the womb. Today the APGAR rating score of new births has become the standard used throughout the world.
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“[She has] done more to improve the health of mothers, babies, and unborn infants than anyone in the twentieth century.”
Former Surgeon General Julius Richmond
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Virginia Apgar did something few women had ever done before her.
She enrolled in medical school. In 1933, Apgar became one of the first women to graduate from Columbia University with a medical degree.
Determined to become a surgeon, she won a surgical internship at Columbia and performed brilliantly. Nevertheless, the chair of surgery, Dr. Alan Whipple, discouraged her from continuing because other women he had trained in surgery failed to establish successful careers in the specialty.
If surgery was to advance, Dr. Whipple encouraged her to practice anesthesiology because he felt that advancements in anesthesia were needed to further advance surgery.
He saw in Apgar “the energy, intelligence, and ability needed to make significant contributions in this area.”
Because anesthesiology was not generally recognized as a specialty until the mid-1940s, Apgar struggled to find a training program when she completed her surgical residency in 1937. Virgina Apgar should be credited for elevating the practice of anesthesia, to make anesthesiology a full-fledged medical specialty.
Virginia Apgar was the first woman to head a specialty division at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center . In 1938, Dr. Apgar returned to Columbia University as the director of the division of anesthesia and as an attending anesthetist.
In 1949, Dr. Apgar was appointed the first woman full professor at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
She began studying obstetrical anesthesia.
More specifically the effects of anesthesia given to mothers during labor and its effect on her newborn baby. This is here she made her greatest contribution to the field of Obstetrics GYN, the Apgar Score.
The APGAR Score was the first standardized method for evaluating the newborn’s transition to life outside the womb.
The score was presented in 1952 at a scientific meeting, and first published in 1953. Despite initial resistance, the score was eventually accepted and is now used throughout the world.
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“Each patient is an individual. You must learn to crawl into the insides of your patients, to fear for them and what happens to them.” Joe Wilder MD
Dr. Wilder’s painting depict a very condensed and enriched world of medicine.
After 1959, she devoted herself to the prevention of birth defects through public education and fundraising for research.
From 1959 until her death in 1974, Apgar worked for the March of Dimes Foundation, serving as vice president for medical affairs and directing its research program to prevent and treat birth defects.
Apgar published over sixty scientific articles and numerous shorter essays for newspapers and magazines during her career, along with her book, Is My Baby All Right? A guide to birth defect.
She received many awards, including honorary doctorates and received many honors and awards for her work.
Apgar has continued to earn posthumous recognition for her contributions and achievements. In 1994, she was honored by the United States Postal Service with a 20¢ Great Americans series postage stamp.
In 1995, Apgar was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, where the women’s rights movement began.
In fact, she was the first medical leader at the March of Dimes to recognize prematurity as serious problem that demanded a focus on the importance of early prenatal care and healthy pregnancy.
More than that, Virginia Apgar was an irrepressible and charismatic champion for babies whose wit and lively personality captivated everyone she encountered in her constant quest for improvements to maternal and infant health.
Virginia Apgar was the women Changing The Face Of Medicine.
Newborn babies benefit from Dr. Virginia Apgar’s groundbreaking research, including the APGAR Score.
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“Each patient is an individual. You must learn to crawl into the insides of your patients, to fear for them and what happens to them.” Joe Wilder MD
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Dr Virginia Apgar - – Caring For The New Born
“Every Baby is First Seen Through The Eyes of Virginia Apgar”
Dr Virginia Apgar creator of the Apgar Score.
Virginia Apgar the subject painted in artwork is the doctor who has saved countless newborn babies.
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