Papers, 1930s-2002.

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Papers, 1930s-2002.

MC 33, the Mary Ellen Avery Papers, 1930s-2002, describes Avery's career as a pediatrician and administrator at Children's Hospital and as a professor at Harvard Medical School through correspondence, photographs, trip correspondence, lectures, and teaching materials. Her service as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at McGill University and as Physician-in-Chief of Montreal Children's Hospital is chronicled in correspondence and trip materials.

38 cubic ft. in 38 record cartons.

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McGill University. Faculty of Medicine

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Children's Hospital (Boston, Mass.)

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Montreal Children's Hospital.

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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...