National Library of Medicine picture of Dorothy Hansine Andersen

Dorothy Hansine Andersen (May 15, 1901 - 1963) was the American who was "the first person to identify cystic fibrosis and the first American physician to describe the disease" [1]. Image File history File links Dorothy_Hansine_Andersen. ... Image File history File links Dorothy_Hansine_Andersen. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ...

She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1922, and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1926. She taught at the University of Rochester prior to joining the faculty of Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, working at Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York. She developed a diagnostic test of cystic fibrosis in the 1940s, and also contributed to training heart surgeons and to the study of nutrition. Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts womens college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... The University of Rochester is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research institution located in Rochester, New York. ... Seal of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, abbreviated P&S, is a graduate school of Columbia University located on the health sciences campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. ... New York-Presbyterian Hospital is a prominent university hospital in New York City, composed of two medical centers, Columbia University Medical Center and New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, each affiliated with an Ivy League University. ... New York, New York redirects here. ... The heart and lungs, from an older edition of Grays Anatomy. ... A cardiothoracic surgeon performs a mitral valve replacement at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center. ... The updated USDA food pyramid, published in 2005, is a general nutrition guide for recommended food consumption. ...

She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2002 for her scientific work. The National Womens Hall of Fame was created in 1969 by a group of people in Seneca Falls, New York, the location of the first American womens rights convention, now known to historians as the 1848 Womens Rights Convention. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ...

External links

• Changing Face of Medicine Biography
• Columbia biography
• Mount Holyoke biography

References

• [2] National Women's Hall of Fame.