Joyce C. Lashof
Joyce Cohen Lashof (March 27, 1926 in Philadelphia
Early life and education
Lashof graduated from Duke University in 1946, followed by the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Montefiore Hospital.[3]
Career
Lashof was hired as assistant professor in the department of medicine at the University of Chicago and received a series of 1-year contracts. When she asked for a standard 3-year appointment, the department chair told her that “he would never give a married woman a tenured track appointment because she would leave and go where her husband's career took him”.[4]
Lashof joined the department of preventive medicine at the
In 1995, she received the Sedgwick Memorial Medal.[5]
Personal life and death
Lashof was married to Richard Lashof, a math professor at the University of Chicago and had three children, Judith, who died in 2018, Carol, and Dan.[4]
Lashof died of heart failure on June 4, 2022 in Berkeley, aged 96 years.[4]
References
- ^ "Sixteen Women Who Changed Public Health". UC Berkeley Public Health. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
- ^ Williams, Alex (July 8, 2022). "Joyce C. Lashof, Doctor Who Shattered Glass Ceilings, Dies at 96". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ a b MacNeil, Matt (July 1, 2020). "Dr. Joyce Lashof - A Public Health Pioneer in the Midst of Sexism". UC Berkeley Public Health.
- ^ S2CID 251817710.
- ^ Proulx, Elise (July 14, 2022). "Joyce Lashof, First Female Dean of UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Dies at 96". California Health Care Foundation. Retrieved 25 August 2022.