Nanette Wenger, MD, became the chief of cardiology at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta in 1958, when black patients and nurses were systematically addressed differently than their white counterparts and cardiovascular disease was assumed to be a “man’s disease.”
Since then, one of the first women to graduate from Harvard Medical School has shifted the segregated policies at the hospital and pioneered research on heart disease in women. She also developed a 21-day cardiac rehabilitation program which became a model for other centers across the nation—a departure from previous recommendations of months of bed rest following cardiac procedures.
And at 87 years old, Wenger is still a practicing physician and active researcher, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Read the AJC’s full profile of Wenger here:
Daniel joined TriMed’s Chicago editorial team in 2017 as a Cardiovascular Business writer. He previously worked as a writer for daily newspapers in North Dakota and Indiana.