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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:1135-1136
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Editorial

Mentorship, Women Thoracic Surgeons, and the Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education

John R. Benfield, MD*, Leslie J. Kohman, MD

Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education, Beverly, Massachusetts, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California and State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, New York , USA

* Address reprint requests to Dr Benfield, Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education, 900 Cummings Center Drive, Suite 221, Beverly, MA01915 (E-mail: rebecca@prri.com).

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To serve as a mentor for young cardiothoracic surgeons is a privilege and a responsibility. The Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education (TSFRE) exists to insure continuing opportunities for young surgeons to become productive investigators and mentors for their successors. An important example of the work of the TSFRE is the Nina Starr Braunwald Award. Who was Nina and why should we remember her?

Nina Starr Braunwald, in 1961, was the first woman to be certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. In Boston, in 1985, Nina told one of us (LJK) about the development of her career. She had spoken with Helen Taussig, late in her life, when Taussig had ascended to dominant world leadership in pediatric cardiology. Nevertheless, Taussig expressed anger that Harvard had not accepted her for training, and that no one had let her become a cardiac surgeon when she came to Hopkins. Women were excluded from cardiac surgery! How did Nina break the gender barrier?

At the age of 14, Nina grew paramecia in Brooklyn and became a member of the American Society of Amateur Microscopers. After medical school at New York University, she was accepted for the prestigious internship at Bellevue. House officers had not been allowed to marry, but Nina was engaged to her classmate, Eugene . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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