Jane F. Desforges (1921 – September 7, 2013) was an American hematologist and professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Biography

Desforges was born in 1921 in Melrose, Massachusetts, where she attended Melrose High School.[1] Although her father was a general practitioner, she initially did not want to pursue a career in medicine; she majored in chemistry at Wellesley College and then followed a friend to enroll at Tufts University School of Medicine.[1][2] When she graduated in 1945, she was one of five women in a graduating class of 98 men. She met her husband Gerald Desforges (who would later become a thoracic surgeon) at medical school, and married him in 1948.[1]

Desforges worked as a resident at Boston City Hospital before moving to Salt Lake City to complete a fellowship with the hematologist Maxwell Wintrobe. After a year in Salt Lake City, she returned to Boston City Hospital, where she would remain for the next 25 years in a variety of roles including the director of laboratories and physician-in-charge of the Tufts University hematology laboratory. As a hematologist, she specialized sickle cell anemia and Hodgkin lymphoma.[2] She became a professor of medicine at Tufts in 1972,[3] and during her tenure she received the medical school's Outstanding Teacher Award for thirteen years in a row.[4] She served as an associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1960 to 1993, was president of the American Society of Hematology, was made a member of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine), and received the Massachusetts Medical Society's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.[3]

Desforges retired in 1995 and died on September 7, 2013.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Stickgold, Emma (September 23, 2013). "Jane F. Desforges, 91, hematologist, professor known for time with patients". The Boston Globe. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Dr. Jane F. Desforges". Changing the Face of Medicine. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Longtime Medical Professor Jane Desforges Dies". Tufts University. September 13, 2013. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  4. ↑ Thornhill, Kate. "Passing of Dr. Jane Desforges". Hirsh Health Sciences Library. Tufts University. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
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