Bernadine Healy
| Bernadine Healy | |
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| Born |
Bernadine Patricia Healy August 4, 1944 New York City |
| Died | August 6, 2011 (aged 67) Gates Mills, Ohio |
| Alma mater | Vassar College |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Physician |
| Field | Cardiology |
| Institutions |
National Institutes of Health Johns Hopkins University Ohio State University |
Bernadine Patricia Healy (August 4, 1944 – August 6, 2011) was an American physician, cardiologist, academic, and first female National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director. She was a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, professor and dean of the College of Medicine and Public Health at the Ohio State University, and served as president of the American Red Cross and the American Heart Association. She was health editor and columnist for U.S. News & World Report. She was a well-known commentator in the media on health issues.
Born in New York City to Michael Healy and Violet McGrath, Healy was one of four daughters raised in Long Island City, Queens. Healy's parents stressed the importance of education. She was the top student of her high school class at a top school for the intellectually gifted in Manhattan, Hunter College High School.
She attended Vassar College on a full scholarship and graduated summa cum laude in 1965 with a major in chemistry and a minor in philosophy. She went on to Harvard Medical School, also on full scholarship, and was one of only ten women out of 120 students in her class. After graduating cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1970, she completed her internship and residency in cardiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Hospital. After finishing her post-doctoral training, she became the first woman to join its full-time faculty in cardiology, and rose quickly to the rank of professor of medicine.
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