Mary Ellen Avery Papers, 1929-2002 (inclusive).

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Mary Ellen Avery Papers, 1929-2002 (inclusive).

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The Mary Ellen Avery Papers, 1929-2002, consist of personal and professional correspondence, teaching materials, professional activities records, grant records, articles and drafts, lectures and speeches, diaries, photographs, and other records from Avery's life and career as a pediatrician in: Boston, Massachusetts; Montreal, Quebec; and Baltimore, Maryland and as a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Boston, where she was the first woman to chair a major department. She was the first female Physician-in-Chief at Children's Hospital, Boston. In 1959, Avery discovered that the lack of lung surfactant in premature infants causes respiratory distress syndrome.

31.5 cubic feet (30 record cartons and 3 flat oversized boxes).

Center for the History of Medicine. Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.

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Avery, Mary Ellen, 1927-2011

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Mary Ellen Avery, 1927-, AB, 1948, Wheaton College; MD, 1952, Johns Hopkins University, was appointed Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in 1974, Thomas Morgan Rotch Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics in 1996, and Emerita in 1997. Avery served as Physician-in-Chief of Children's Hospital in Boston, Mass. from 1974 to 1985. Avery is a specialist in pulmonary disorders of the newborn infant, and was the first woman to serve as clinical chief of Children's Hosp...