DR. DOROTHY EDWARDS PROFESSORSHIP IN GYNECOLOGY AND OBSTETRICS
Established in 1986 by the estate of Dorothy Edwards
DOROTHY EDWARDS studied at the Johns Hopkins Medical School from 1917--two years before American women won the right to vote--until 1922. At a time when it was very unusual for a woman to pursue higher education, she attended some of the best schools in the world, including Northwestern, Cornell, and universities in Vienna and Edinburgh. She went on to become a successful gynecologist in Chicago. Dr. Edwards died in 1984. (The image is of a fetal sonogram.)
DOROTHY EDWARDS studied at the Johns Hopkins Medical School from 1917--two years before American women won the right to vote--until 1922. At a time when it was very unusual for a woman to pursue higher education, she attended some of the best schools in the world, including Northwestern, Cornell, and universities in Vienna and Edinburgh. She went on to become a successful gynecologist in Chicago. Dr. Edwards died in 1984. (The image is of a fetal sonogram.)