Posted on November 9, 2018
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I guess that Johns Hopkins University's undergrad program wasn't co-ed until 1970! |
Since that was waaaay back in 1893, I think that is surprising as well as cool. That means that the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was one of the first co-ed medical colleges.
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Sabin was soon noticed by her professors. She had great skills of observation and was patient enough to stick with projects to careful completion. Some of her projects included creating a 3-D model of a newborn baby's brain and making discoveries about human development in the womb.
After graduating from med school, Sabin was given an internship and a research fellowship and soon a teaching job at Johns Hopkins! In 1917, she became the first American woman to become a full professor at a medical college.
She also became the first woman president of the American Association of Anatomists.
Yet, no matter how much of a standout she was, Florence Sabin still faced discrimination for being a woman.
Shortly after Sabin left the Johns Hopkins faculty, partly because of the institutionalized sexism she faced there, she became head of a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City. And she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. For 20 years, she remained the ONLY woman in that esteemed academy!
After an amazing career, Florence Sabin retired from teaching and research - only to work hard on advocating for reform in public health.
Which is...SO important.
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(Each state chooses two of its citizens to so honor, and Colorado chose this amazing doctor / teacher plus astronaut Jack Swigert. Good on you, Colorado, for honoring scientists and explorers over politicians and generals.)
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