Virginia Kneeland Frantz
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Dr. Virginia Kneeland Frantz (1896 - 1967) was a pathologist and educator credited with a series of discoveries in the study of thyroid, breast and pancreatic tumors. From 1924 to 1962 she taught surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, becoming a full professor in 1951.
Her major achievements include:
- In 1935, she and Allen O. Whipple described the insulin secretion of pancreatic tumors.
- In 1961 she became the first female president of the American Thyroid Society.
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