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Carol Cooperman Nadelson, MD — psychiatry

Courtesy Carol Cooperman Nadelson, MD, photograph by Bachrach

Dr. Carol Nadelson (b. 1936) was the first woman president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), first woman editor-in-chief of the APA Press, and first director of Partners Office for Women’s Careers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. As a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s expert on promoting academic medical careers for women, she has had a major influence on the lives of women in medicine—by advancing the cause of women’s mental health and by leading the office for the professional development, career planning, and mentoring of women on the hospital staff.

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