Adler, Eleanor Lydia, 1909-1993

Eleanor L. Adler (1909-1993) was born and raised in Yonkers, New York. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1929 and received her M.D. degree from University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, which later became New York University School of Medicine. She did her internship and pediatric training and a year of research at Bellevue Hospital, following which she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha. She received American Board of Pediatrics board certification and joined the newly formed American Academy of Pediatrics in 1939. Dr. Adler began a solo practice in Yonkers while working as a clinical instructor at Bellevue Hospital. Due to World War II, she remained in these positions until 1946.

Dr. Adler joined her brother, Dr. Stuart Adler, in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1947. She became one of a very few female physicians practicing in the state at that time and the first female pediatrician. Her education and career working with childhood illnesses spanned the use of sulfonamides to the use of antibiotics. Dr. Adler retired from active practice in 1979. She spent her remaining years volunteering and traveling. Dr. Eleanor Adler died on April 11, 1993.