Dr Mary Headley Welsh

In Remembrance of Dr. Mary Ellen Avery

People the world over know about your academic and medical accomplishments. I would like to share with your colleagues, the Mel that in the 1980s I got to know and spend time with outside the laboratory (although science and how science can benefit “your” babies was just a breath away in anything we did). The time I really got to talk with Mel outside the Harvard confines was when I first roome...

“PADding” My Career with Dr. Mary Ellen Avery

On Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m., faculty, fellows, and research associates in the Joint Program in Neonatology (JPN) at Harvard would meet in the conference room of the Seeley Mudd building for Research Conference. Dr. Avery would come bustling in, settle in a chair, and ask the group “So, what exciting discoveries have you made this week?” Those Wednesday conferences with Dr. Avery became one of th...

My Personal Tribute to Dr. Mary Ellen Avery

Because my husband was planning to pursue a fellowship in adolescent medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, I was set to interview there in July of 1974 for a third year of pediatric training. I was just starting my second year of pediatrics in Los Angeles and had been focusing more on the mechanics of completing pediatric training than on choosing a fellowship. Dr. Mary Ellen Avery had just b...

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker: years ahead of her time.

Historical snapshot: Dr. Mary E. Walker, Civil War surgeon, Medal of Honor recipient.

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