Title:

Letter from Virginia Apgar to Victor A. McKusick

Creator:

Apgar, Virginia

Recipient:

McKusick, Victor Almon, 1921-2008

Date:

4 March 1966

Description:

Dr. Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) was the anesthesiologist who developed the Apgar Score for evaluating newborns in 1952. Her subsequent research in neonatology included studies of birth defects and in 1959 she became the director of the Division of Congenital Malformations at the March of Dimes. There she was responsible for reviewing grant applications, raising public and professional awareness of birth defects and the research in progress, and encouraging support for research in this area, often traveling thousands of miles every year. Attending professional conferences and courses such as the Short Course in Medical Genetics helped her keep up to date with progress in the field, even if--as she humorously suggests in this letter--her demanding schedule precluded a stellar performance on the exams.

Original Repository:

Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. Victor Almon McKusick Collection

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the National Foundation-March of Dimes.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. Victor Almon McKusick Collection. 12576

Legacy ID:

JQBBCM

NLM ID:

101584632X30

Profiles Collection:

The Victor A. McKusick Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584632X30

Story Section:

The Bar Harbor Course and "McKusick's Catalog," 1960-1980