Virginia Apgar
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| Virginia Apgar | |
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| Born | June 7, 1909 Westfield, New Jersey |
| Died | August 7, 1974 New York City, New York |
Virginia Apgar, M.D. (June 7, 1909 - August 7, 1974) was an American physician who specialised in anesthesia and pediatrics and who introduced the first test, called the Apgar score, to assess the health of newborn babies.
She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1929, and the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in 1933.
In 1949, Dr. Apgar became the first woman to become a full professor at Columbia P&S [1]. In 1959, she earned a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University.
In 1953, she introduced the first test, called the Apgar score, to assess the health of newborn babies. It is administered one minute and five minutes after birth, and sometimes also at 10 minutes.
In November 1995 she was inducted into the National Womens Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York
In 1994, she was commemorated on a U.S. postal stamp.
[edit] External links
- Biography from profiles in science
- Mount Holyoke biography
- Columbia biography
- The Virginia Apgar Papers
- MIT biography
- PBS
- National Women's Hall of Fame
- Changing the Face of Medicine
- Full biography on WhoNamedIt.com
- [http://apgar.net/virginia/ Grandnephew's memorial page at apga
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