Celebrating America's Women Physicians

Traveling Exhibition Comes to the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library

"Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians," a new exhibition opening at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library on March 2, 2007, tells the history of the American women who have practiced medicine over the past two centuries.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), Bethesda, Md., and the American Library Association, Chicago, Ill., organized the exhibition with support from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health, and the American Medical Women’s Association. The traveling exhibition is based on a larger exhibition that was displayed at the NLM from 2003–2005.

"Changing the Face of Medicine" includes two interactive kiosks that offer access to the NLM Web exhibitionand to the accompanying NLM's"Local Legends" Web site . The University of Virginia Health System’s nationally-recognized honorees are Drs. Karen S. Rheuban, Laurel W. Rice, and Diane G. Snustad. Dr. Vivian Pinn, Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health, is also featured in the exhibit. Dr. Pinn was the only African American and the only woman in her class to graduate from the UVa School of Medicine in 1967.

"We are delighted to have been selected as a site for this exhibition," said Gretchen N. Arnold, Associate Dean and Interim Library Director.  "Although ‘Changing the Face of Medicine'  focuses on women in medicine, its lessons about persistence, dedication, and courage in one's life choices speak to everyone-men and women and young adults-and to people in all lines of work."

The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library is sponsoring and co-sponsoring free programs and other events for the public in connection with the exhibition.  

For more information, contact Joan Echtenkamp Klein, the Alvin V. and Nancy Baird Curator for Historical Collections, at (434) 924-0052.

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Our Featured Physicians at the University of Virginia

Devoting her career to the understanding and treatment of gynecological cancers, Dr. Laurel Wysong Rice personifies the University of Virginia Cancer Center mission of "changing the future of cancer."

Click here for her full biography from the National Library of Medicine.

As the Claude Moore Chair of Geriatrics at the University of Virginia (UVA), Dr. Diane Gail Snustad now serves the Charlottesville community as medical director for both the UVA Geriatric Clinic and the Colonnades Health Care Center. Dr. Snustad says: "I give medical students and residents a role model of a human being able to balance full-time academic work, a family, a marriage, and a sense of humor."

Click here for her full biography from the National Library of Medicine.

Dr. Karen Schulder Rheuban is playing a key role in 21st-century medicine, using telemedicine to provide the best health care had to offer to rural communities. Dr. Rheuban is currently professor of pediatrics (pediatric cardiology), associate dean for Continuing Medical Education, and medical director of the University of Virginia Office of Telemedicine.

Click here for her full biography from the National Library of Medicine.

In her role as director of the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Vivian Pinn has been in the position to ensure that women's health is a high priority at NIH. Dr. Pinn was the only African American and the only woman to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Medicine Class of 1967.

Click here for her full biography from the National Library of Medicine.

Images of our physicians are courtesy of Medical AlumNews, magazine of the University of Virginia Medical Alumni Association Medical School Foundation.