Dorothy M. Horstmann Biographical File

 Collection
Identifier: EBL-0340

  • Staff Only

Abstract

Biographical file includes obituary and excerpts from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine: The Story in Pictures From Its Beginning to 1963.

Dates

  • 1940 - 2003

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Reproduction Rights

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Historical or Biographical Note

Dorothy M. Horstmann received her M.D. in 1940 from the University of California. She received additional training within the Vanderbilt Department of Medicine Staff for a year between 1941 and 1942. Horstmann then joined the Yale University Poliomyelitis Unit in 1943. Among her very notable achievements, Horstmann demonstrated that the polio virus reached the nervous system by way of the blood, a discovery that made polio vaccines possible. Later, she evaluated the oral vaccine program in Russia and studied the effectiveness of a rubella vaccine. In 1961, Horstmann became the first female full professor at the Yale School of Medicine. In 1969, the renowned epidemiologist, pediatrician, and virologist became the first woman at Yale to received an endowed chair, the John Rodman Paul Professor of Epidemiology.

Extent

0.01 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Title
Dorothy M. Horstmann biographical file
Status
Completed
Author
Processed by EBL Special Collections Staff
Date
2010-05-14
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Description is inEnglish.

Repository Details

Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository

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