Women Rising
How Chicagoans have historically shaped, and continue to transform, healthcare Fact checked by Derick Wilder Our story begins 160 years ago, during the Civil War era. Elizabeth Blackwell, MD, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S., had graduated only 15 years earlier, in 1849. Blackwell was exceptional; most institutions at the […]
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 […]
