Carola B. Eisenberg
| Carola B. Eisenberg | |
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| Born |
September 15, 1917 Argentina |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Citizenship | US (naturalized 1949) |
| Occupation | Psychiatrist, Child Psychiatrist, Medical Educator |
| Spouse(s) |
Manfred Guttmacher, MD (deceased) |
| Children |
Alan Edward Guttmacher, MD; Laurence Guttmacher, MD |
Manfred Guttmacher, MD (deceased)
Carola Blitzman Eisenberg, September 15, 1917, was the first woman to hold the position of Dean of Students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1978 to 1990, she was the Dean of Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She has for a long time been Lecturer in the newly renamed Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS (formerly the Department of Social Medicine). She is also both a Founding Member of Physicians for Human Rights and an Honorary Psychiatrist with the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, a longstanding position there.
Since her retirement, she has been involved in human rights work through Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and elsewhere. She is a near-centennarian living on her own in her own home.
She is a native Argentine and is a cofounder of Physicians for Human Rights and currently its Vice President and the Chair of its Asylum Committee. Her dissertation on "A Histological Study of Tay-Sachs Disease" was presented in 1944 for her medical degree at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. She is also a 1935 graduate of the School of Psychiatric Social Work in Hospicio De Las Mercedes (Hospice of the Virgin of Mercy),Argentina. After receiving her medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires and taking her psychiatric training at the Hospicio De Las Mercedes, she emigrated to the U.S. and became Fellow in Child Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland. She is licensed to practice medicine (psychiatry) in Maryland (1955) and Massachusetts (1971).
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