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Collection FerC : Charlotte Ferencz Collection

Description

Key

103418

Reference Code Element

FerC

Dates

1951-1973, inclusive

Extent

0.5 linear feet

Creator

Personal name, Ferencz, Charlotte

Administrative/Biographical History

Charlotte Ferencz
28 Oct 1921-27 Sept 2016
Charlotte Ferencz was born in Budapest, Hungary. She received her B.S. in 1944 and her M.D. in 1945, both from McGill University. After serving as a fellow in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1949 to 1951, she received her diploma in pediatrics from McGill University. Ferencz joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in pediatric cardiology in 1954, serving as director of the rheumatic fever clinic until 1958. In 1970, she received her M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. In 1973, she joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in the departments of epidemiology, preventive medicine, and pediatrics. Starting in the 1980s, she was principal investigator for the comprehensive Baltimore-Washington Infant Study, a population based etiologic study of congenital heart disease.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1949-1951

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1954-1958

Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1979

Scope and Content

The Charlotte Ferencz Collection consists of correspondence between Ferencz and Helen B. Taussig and also photos.

Among the photographs are images of Charlotte Ferencz and colleagues which include Helen Taussig on a camel; Charlotte Ferecnz at meeting of American Heart Association with Helen Taussig and Mary Allen Engle; photo of Mary Allen Engle portrait with plaque in Dr. Engle's honor.

Related Archival Material

A small album of snapshots of Taussig being honored at American College of Cardiology dinner (receiving silver bowl) has been transferred to the Helen Taussig personal papers collection. See series 9 Photographs and audiovisual media, box 281 Photo Albums from the Helen Taussig Papers.

Language

English

Administration

Accession

2011-093

2011-078

2009-070

2009-060

2008-074

2007-061

2003-183

2003-018

2001-048

2001-028

2000-104

2000-013

1999-056

1996-027

1991-010

Related Artifacts

Found 1 record(s)

Available Actions	Artifact Numbersort by Artifact Number ascending	Titlesort by Title ascending
	304A	Laennec Stethoscope

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