Olga Jonasson, MD — education (teaching), surgery
Courtesy Olga Jonasson, MD, photograph by Stuart-Rogers, Ltd.
In some medical specialties, the glass ceiling preventing women from rising to the top leadership positions has been especially tough to break through. Surgery has been one of the least welcoming specialties for women physicians. In 1987, Dr. Olga Jonasson (1934–2006) was named chair of the department of surgery at Ohio State University College of Medicine, becoming the first woman in the United States to head an academic surgery department at a coeducational school of medicine. Dr. Jonasson was a pioneer in the field of clinical transplantation and histocompatibility.
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