Marion Spencer Fay

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Marion Spencer Fay
Born1898
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
DiedMay 20, 1990
Occupation(s)Physician, dean, and teacher

Marion Spencer Fay (1898 – May  20, 1990) was an American physician, dean, teacher, and advocate. She was president and dean of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Fay received her bachelor's degree at Newcomb College at Tulane University. She studied for her master's at the University of Colorado. Her PhD work was at Yale University where she focused on physiologic chemistry.[1]

Legacy[edit]

Fay died in 1990, however her legacy lives on in the establishment of the Marion Spencer Fay Award. This award is given to a female physician who has made significant scientific strides, and who displays potential to continue doing so.

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ Sutherland, Serenity; Nelson, David R.; Miller, Bayard (October 12, 2023). "Marion Spencer Fay". Visualizing Women in Science. Retrieved October 12, 2023.

References[edit]

  • Pennsylvania Medical Journal. "PMJ Interview with Marion Spencer Fay, Ph.D.: Former President and Dean, Woman's Medical College," (1964 February), 25–26.
  • Peitzman, Steven J. A New and Untried Course: Woman's Medical College and Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1850–1998. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 200.
  • Drexel University College of Medicine. Marion Spencer Fay Award. (http://www.drexelmed.edu), accessed October 29, 2020.
  • Keene, Clifford H. Pioneer-Pacesetter-Innovator: The Story of the Medical College of Pennsylvania. New York: The Newcomen Society of North America, 1971.
  • Philadelphia Inquirer. "Marion Spencer Fay, 93," 1990 May 22.
  • Medical Woman's Journal. "Dean Marion Fay, Ph.D," Vol. 59, No. 7. (1952 July), 21–22, 24.