U.S. National Institutes of Health

Doris Honig Merritt, MD — administration (medical school deans), pediatric medicine

Courtesy Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Dr. Doris Honig Merritt (b. 1923), the first woman to chair the Board of Regents for the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, helped establish the Library’s electronic information system in 1978. During her career in university administration, Dr. Merritt coined the term“grantsmanship” to describe the art of procuring grants, and herself brought millions of dollars in grants to the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.

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