History of Women in Dermatology series

Although more than half of the residents in dermatology are now women, women were a minority in medicine in the 1960s and 1970s, even in dermatology. We have decided to honor those among us who have accomplished so much when it was truly a struggle for a woman to do so. We also wanted to use the example of these women’s lives to demonstrate that, with the proper motivation and time management, a woman can have it all. Wilma Bergfeld is the quintessential woman dermatologist pioneer who paved the road for the rest of us; she was working full time—publishing, mentoring, and teaching—while maintaining a very happy and enduring marriage to an equally accomplished physician