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Florence Rena Sabin was an American physician and medical scientist known for pioneering work on the development of the lymphatic system and for later transforming public health in Colorado. She was the first woman to hold a full professorship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockef…
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science · American medical scientist (1871–1953) · physician · university teacher · scientist · anatomist · also Florence R. Sabin, Florence Rena Sabin, Florence Sabin, Sabin
Born 9 November 1871 · Died 3 October 1953 · Q449487
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” in The Lancet — cited 5,008 times.
Johns Hopkins University honored Sabin's legacy by naming one of the four colleges of its medical school after her
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Awarded Colorado Women's Hall of Fame (1985).
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Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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Sabin was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, In 1985, Sabin was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame
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The state of Colorado donated a statue of Sabin to the National Statuary Hall Collection
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Died 1953-10-03.
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“I hope my studies may be an encouragement to other women, especially to young women.”
Awarded Lasker-Bloomberg Public Service Award (1951).
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Received the Albert Lasker Public Service Award for her public-health work
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Sabin retired for a second and final time, continuing to advocate for public health issues
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Became manager of health and charities for Denver, donating her salary over the next three years to medical research
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Sabin said that she was chosen as committee chair because the Governor had no interest in public health and appointed “an old lady” because he did not think she would be able to accomplish anything
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Sabin left her position at Rockefeller Institute and moved back to Colorado for retirement
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Joined the research committee of the National Tuberculosis Association
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Was voted into the National Academy of Sciences
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Sabin left Johns Hopkins after completing her research amidst institutional discrimination and her desire to research full time
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Sabin's work on the origins of blood vessels earned her the 16th presidency of the Association of American Anatomists (1924-1926)
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Began to teach in the Department of Anatomy at Johns Hopkins
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Sabin enrolled at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as one of fourteen women in her class
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And was co-ed from the beginning because of an early donor's contingency which required the admittance of female students
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Florence enrolled at Vermont Academy (and graduated in 1889), where her scientific interests were finally allowed to develop
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Serena Sabin gave birth to her youngest daughter, Florence Rena Sabin, in Central City, Colorado
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Born 1871-11-09.
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