Dr. Dorothy Edwards Professorship in Gynecology and Obstetrics

Dr. Dorothy Edwards (first row, second from left) with her 1922 JHU SOM pathology class.

DOROTHY EDWARDS, MD studied at the Johns Hopkins Medical School from 1917—two years before American women won the right to vote—until 1922. At a time when it was very unusual for a woman to pursue higher education, she attended some of the best schools in the world, including Northwestern, Cornell, as well as universities in Vienna and Edinburgh. She went on to become a successful gynecologist in Chicago. Dr. Edwards died in 1984.