Women in Medicine
Meet four leaders inspiring Chicago’s next generation of female physicians Medicine has greatly evolved since male students at Geneva Medical College in New York first voted to admit a female student as a joke. When she showed up for class, the men were stunned into a “death-like stillness.” But in 1849, that woman, Elizabeth Blackwell, became […]
Building Hope
Steady advances in pancreatic cancer treatment are improving outcomes When Harriet Wulfstat visited the Great Wall of China in 2006, she posed for a picture with her arms outstretched, making V for victory signs with her fingers in a playful nod to President Nixon’s historic trip decades earlier. She did not know it then, but soon […]
