Georgeanna Seegar Jones

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Georgeanna Seegar Jones
Gynecology
Obstetrics
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University

Georgeanna Seegar Jones (July 6, 1912 – March 26, 2005) was an American reproductive endocrinologist who with her husband,

in vitro fertilization in the United States.[1]

Early life

She was born July 6, 1912, in

Baltimore, Maryland, to J. King Seegar. Her father was a obstetrician, one of the many things that led to Seegar Jones's interest in medicine from a young age.[2] She was raised along with two siblings. She received her bachelor's degree in 1932 from Goucher College and continued to pursue her medical career at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.[2] Four years later, 1936, she got her official medical degree (MD).[2] She completed her training as a house gynecology officer and an acting member of the National Cancer Institute.[2] While attending medical school she met her husband, Howard W. Jones, Jr., whom she married in 1940.[2] Reproductive endocrinology was not yet a subspecialty, in fact, her and her husband's accomplishments have contributed to the successful reproductive endocrinology programs that are offered at Johns Hopkins.[2]

Career

As a resident at Johns Hopkins, she discovered that the common pregnancy hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin,

miscarriages, thus allowing many of them to not only conceive, but to deliver healthy babies.[6] The pregnanediol technique was developed by Jones along with other Hopkins members. Conclusions drawn from her individual research showed that low progesterone levels lead to low preganediol levels and provide a greater risk for infertility.[5][7]

She became the director of Johns Hopkins' Laboratory of Reproductive Physiology and was the Gynecologist-in-Charge of the hospital's gynecologic endocrinology clinic in 1939. She married Howard W. Jones while at Johns Hopkins and they had three children.

Later life

In 1969, Seegar Jones began to identify and examine what is now known as ovarian resistance syndrome.

test tube baby
.

Jones died on March 26, 2005, in Portsmouth, Virginia.[1]

Awards

Dr. Seegar Jones was awarded the Distinguished Service Award Medal from the Cosmopolitan Club of Norfolk in 1988 for the advancements she made to in vitro fertilization. She is also a recipient of the Dean's Outstanding Faculty Award from Eastern Virginia Medical School, 1996; and in 1997, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Johns Hopkins University, also for her contributions to reproductive endocrinology and success she made with IVF. Five years prior to her passing, 2000, she received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Gynecologic Investigation.[9]

She was one of the first in her field to train medical students, residents and fellows for several schools. Her dedication to bettering the physician generations below her paved the way of academic medicine.[2] One of the many reason why Dr. Seegar Jones is so distinguished and honored in her field. She was named the first woman President of the American Fertility Society in 1970.[2] One of the reasons she was honored with this title is because her work with fertility prompted women to control their future.

References

  1. ^
    New York Times
    . Retrieved December 22, 2011. Dr. Georgeanna S. Jones, who was half of a husband-and-wife team that created the first program for in vitro fertilization in the United States and its first "test tube" baby, died on Saturday at a hospital in Norfolk, Va. She was 92 and lived in Portsmouth, Va.
  2. ^
    PMID 16363033
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  3. PMID 17843374
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  4. ISBN 9780393239607
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  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-7506-0167-2
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  6. ^ Alderson, Thomas (December 9, 2016). "Luteal Phase Dysfunction". Medscape. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
  7. ^
    PMID 1898886
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  8. PMID 628528
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  9. ^ "Georgeanna Seegar Jones and Howard W. Jones, Jr". portraitcollection.jhmi.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-22.

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