Virginia Apgar, MD — diagnostic and therapeutic services (anesthesiology)
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Dr. Virginia Apgar (1909–1974), the first woman to become a full professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, designed the first standardized method for evaluating the newborn’s transition to life outside the womb—the Apgar Score. Newborn babies still benefit from Dr. Virginia Apgar’s groundbreaking research into the effects of anesthesia during childbirth and advocacy on the prevention of birth defects.
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