Carola B. Eisenberg

Carola B. Eisenberg Carola Blitzman Eisenberg, MD, now retired but actively involved in human rights work through Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and elsewhere, was the Dean of Students of MIT (the first woman to hold that position at MIT), then Dean of Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS) (1978–1990). She has for a long time been Lecturer in the newly renamed Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS (formerly the Department of Social Medicine). She is also Honorary Psychiatrist with the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, a longstanding position there. 1 of Physicians (1989–1993), National Institutes of Health (1992), Office of the Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services (1992), National Research Council of the National Academy of Science and The National Academy of Engineering (1992–1996), and the National Institutes of Health (1995–1998). She has been a member of human rights missions to El Salvador, Chile, and Paraguay. She founded and served as Vice President of Physicians for Human Rights USA, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as President of the Examiners Club of Boston. She served on the Committee on Women in Science and Engineering of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences and is currently a member of the Advisory Committee to the Office of Research on Women’s Health of the National Institutes of Health. Career She is a native Argentine and is a cofounder of Physicians for Human Rights and currently its Vice President and the Chair of its Asylum Committee. Her dissertation on “A Histological Study of Tay-Sachs Disease" was presented in 1944 for her medical degree at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. She is also a 1935 graduate of the School of Psychiatric Social Work in Hospicio De Las Mercedes (Hospice of the Virgin of Mercy),[1][2][3] Argentina. After receiving her medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires and taking her psychiatric training at the Hospicio De Las Mercedes, she emigrated to the U.S. and became Fellow in Child Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland. She is licensed to practice medicine (psychiatry) in Maryland (1955) and Massachusetts (1971). She is a member of Boston’s Examiner Club and active in both The Cambridge-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Oral History Project of the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine, and is active in human rights issues broadly. She is the widow of Leon Eisenberg, MD, Presley Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of the Harvard Medical School of Boston. As the wife of the late Dr. Manfred Guttmacher (brother of Alan Frank Guttmacher), she is the mother of Laurence B. Guttmacher, MD, who is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities and also Advisory Dean, University of Rochester School of Medicine (URMC), and Alan Edward Guttmacher, MD, who succeeded Dr. Francis Sellers Collins (now National Institutes of Health Director) as Acting Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at NIH, but since Dec. 1, 2009, has been Acting Director, then Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), also at NIH. She served on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Medical School from 1958-1967 before becoming a staff psychiatrist at the Student Health Service of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1972 to 1978, she served as Dean of Students at MIT, the first woman to occupy that position and the first to serve on the Academic Council, its highest academic governing authority. In 1978, after leaving MIT, she was appointed Dean for Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School, where she served for 12 years (1978–1990). From 1990 to 1992, she was Director of the International Programs for Medical Students at HMS. 2 Timeline: chronology of Carola Eisenberg’s life and achievements • Born: Buenos Aires, Argentina Throughout her career, she has consulted with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (1979), Swarthmore College (1984), Mental Health Division of the World Health Organization (1985), Committee on Human Rights and Medical Practice, American College • Naturalized U.S. Citizen • Johns Hopkins Hospital, Psychiatrist, Outpatient Department, July 1947 – June 1950 1 2 4 OTHER HONORS • Dept. of Education, City of Baltimore, Consultant in Psychiatry, July 1951 - June 1953 • University of Maryland, Instructor in Psychiatry, July 1955 - June 1959 • Park School of Baltimore, Consultant in Psychiatry, Baltimore, July 1957 - June 1967 • Johns Hopkins Medical School • Instructor in Psychiatry and Pediatrics, July 1958 – June 1966 3 Prizes and awards • Physicians for Human Rights, which she cofounded, was the 1997 co-recipient, with Jody Williams, of the Nobel Peace Prize for its International Campaign to Ban Landmines. • Massachusetts Psychiatric Association - 2000 • Morani Renaissance Woman Award to “honor an outstanding woman physician or scientist in North America”, Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine, [[Drexel University College of Medicine • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pedi]], 2002. Current List of Award Winners atrics, July 1966 – October 1967 • Sheppard Pratt Hospital, Consultant in Psychiatry, July 1960 – August 1967 • Lifetime Achievement Award, Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, 2005. • Private Practice of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Baltimore, July 1955 – August 1967 • APA Human Rights Award, American Psychiatric Association, 2005. Current List of Award Winners • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • George Eastman Award, University of Rochester (UR’s highest Award, given annually - most years), 2009 • Staff Psychiatrist, 1968 - June 1972 • Dean for Student Affairs, July 1972 - June 1978 • Massachusetts General Hospital, Consultant in Psychiatry, July 1968–Present • Distinguished Lifetime Service Award “for contributions in addressing mental health in college and medical students and for distinguished leadership as an international human rights advocate”, American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, 2009. • McLean Hospital, Consultant in Psychiatry, July 1969 – June 1992 • The Leon and Carola Eisenberg Award from Physicians for Human Rights • Harvard Medical School, 1968–present • Lecturer in Psychiatry, July 1968 - June 1996 • Lecturer in Social Medicine, July 1996 - 2008 • Dean for Student Affairs, July 1978 - June 1990 • Director, International Programs for Medical Students, July 1990 - June 1992 • Private Practice of Psychiatry, Boston, 1992–2006 • Through PHR, Co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize for PHR’s International Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1997 • FHWIM Morani Renaissance Woman Award, 2002 • Lifetime Achievement Award, Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, 2005 • Human Rights Award, American Psychiatric Association (APA), 2005 • George Eastman Award, University of Rochester, 2009 • Distinguished Lifetime Service Award, American Psychiatric Association, 2009. 4 Other honors • HMS Mention of the $25,000 Prize in honor of Dr. Carola Eisenberg, former HMS Dean of Students. • “Profiles of Remarkable Women” included in New dimensions in women’s health By Linda Lewis Alexander, Judith H. Larosa, Helaine Bader, Susan Garfield. • On April 28, 2010, Dr. Carola Eisenberg presented the first annual Leon Eisenberg Award for the Program in Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities (MH/DD), Children’s Hospital Boston. She is a Guest of Honor each year at the annual Eisenberg Award presentation dinner, held at the MIT Faculty Club in Cambridge, Massachusetts. • On October 10, 2010, A Tribute to Dr. Carola Eisenberg: Founding Board Member, Visionary Soul, Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA. Sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights, of which she was a Founding Member. • Dr. Carola Eisenberg has been an Honorary Psychiatrist with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for a very long time. (start date uncertain) 3 5 Boards • American Psychiatric Association (Life Fellow): Council on Emerging Issues, 1974–79; Committee on International Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists, 1991–94; Committee on Human Rights, 1994; Vice Chair, Council on International Affairs, 1995–98 • American Orthopsychiatric Association (Life Fellow); Program Committee, 1967–70 • Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine, Board of Directors, dates? • Center for the History of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Women’s History Committee, dates? • Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), where she is a Cofounder (not confounder): Vice President, 1990– 1999; Chair, Asylum Network, 2000- 6 Other affiliations • DRCLAS - the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies • American Psychiatric Association (Life Fellow): Council on Emerging Issues, 1974–79; Committee on International Abuse of Psychiatry and Psychiatrists, 1991–94; Committee on Human Rights, 1994; Vice Chair, Council on International Affairs, 1995–98 • American Orthopsychiatric Association (Life Fellow): Program Committee, 1967–70 • Association for Adolescent Psychiatry • American Association of Medical Colleges • Massachusetts Medical Society (Fellow) • Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, Inc. (Council) • Aesculapian Club of Harvard Medical School • American Association of University Professors • American Women’s Medical Society • American Association for the Advancement of Science • American Association of University Women • Association of Women in Science, Inc. • Examiners Club, Boston; President, 1992–2001 • Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Honorary Psychiatrist, 19__ to present) • Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Cambridge, MA 7 Bibliography • Eisenberg, C. Similarities and Differences Between Men and Women as Students. J. Amer. Med. Women’s Assoc. 1981:35-36, 48-50. • Eisenberg, C. Honduras: Mental Health Awareness Changes a Community. World Health Forum, I (1,2):72-77, 1980. • Eisenberg, C. Caring. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, Vol. 55:16-17, 48-49, 1981 (summer). • Eisenberg, C. Women as Physicians. Journal of Medical Education, Vol. 58, 534-541, July 1983. • Eisenberg, C; Halperin, D; Hargreaves, A; Hubbard, F; Mittleberger, J; Palmisano, J; Stanbury, J (1983). “Health and human rights in El Salvador”. The New England Journal of Medicine 308 (17): 1028– 9. doi:10.1056/NEJM198304283081713. PMID 6835310. • Eisenberg, C. Mental Health and the College Student. Mental Health and the Schools, S. Leung (ed.) Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1985. • Eisenberg, C., Foreword to a Student-to-Student Guide to Medical School by R.W. Betcher, M.D. Little, Brown and Co., Boston 1985. • Eisenberg, C (1986). “It is still a privilege to be a doctor”. The New England Journal of Medicine 314 (17): 1113–4. doi:10.1056/NEJM198604243141710. PMID 3960083. Reprinted in: The Advisor, 6:18-19, 1986. Reprinted in: On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays. Edited by R. Reynolds and J. Stone. Simon and Schuster, N.Y., 1991; 2nd Edition 1996, 3rd Edition 2002. Commentary on Eisenberg’s lead place in volume. • Eisenberg, C. The Stresses of Beginning Teaching. Journal of the Harvard-Danforth Center, 2:17, 1987 (January) • Geiger, J; Eisenberg, C; Gloyd, S; Quiroga, J; Schlenker, T; Scrimshaw, N; Devin, J (1989). “A new medical mission to El Salvador”. The New England Journal of Medicine 321 (16): 1136– 40. doi:10.1056/NEJM198910193211629. PMID 2797078. • Eisenberg, C (1989). “Medicine is no longer a man’s profession. Or, when the men’s club goes coed it’s time to change the regs”. The New England Journal of Medicine 321 (22): 1542– 4. doi:10.1056/NEJM198911303212210. PMID 2811973. 4 8 PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS • Eisenberg, C. Matters of Faith: Students Follow Their Own Course. Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, 63:20-23,1990. • Eisenberg, C (1991). “Affirmative action for women and promotion of academic excellence”. Academic Medicine 66 (11): 678–9. doi:10.1097/00001888199111000-00008. PMID 1747176. • Eisenberg, C. Confidentiality in Psychotherapy: The case of Anne Sexton. (Letters to the Editor) New England Journal of Medicine, 325(20):1451, 1991. 1 • Women’s Rights: The Coming Tidal Wave NIH Conference on Women in Biomedical Careers: Dynamics of Change: Strategies for the 21st Century Introductory Remarks June 11, 1992 Pooks Hill Marriott Hotel Bethesda, Maryland, reprinted in Journal of Women’s Health. 1992 (Fall);1(3):235237. • “Landmines: A Deadly Legacy” in Landmines by Arms Project (Human Rights Watch), Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) - co-author • Health and Public Policy Committee by the Human Rights and Medical Practice Subcommittee (including Carola Eisenberg) (1995) The Role of the Physician and the Medical Profession in the Prevention of International Torture and in the Treatment of Its Survivors. Annals of Internal Medicine 15 April 1995;122(8):607-613. • Eisenberg, C. (1995) The Struggle To Get There, In: Women in Biomedical Careers: Dynamics of Change: Strategies for the 21st Century. Full report of the workshop. Washington, National Institute of Health. Office for Research on Women’s Health. NIH publication, No.95-3565; 18-21. • Eisenberg, C. (1996). “Review of A New Prescription for Women’s Health by Bernadine Healy”. New England Journal of Medicine 335: 1614–15. doi:10.1056/nejm199611213352119. • Eisenberg, C. (1996) Women doctors: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education, 1996;3:1. • Eisenberg, C. Mental Health of People and the Effects of War on Children. One World, One Language: Paving the Way to Better Perspectives for Mental Health. Edited by JJ Lopez-Ibor, F. LiehMak, HM Visotsky and M. Maj. Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, Seattle, 1999, pp. 88–93. • Eisenberg, C. (1999) Medicine and Human Rights. XI World Congress of Psychiatry Hamburg, Germany. • Meeting the Nation’s Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists: Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Personnel (1994) • Institute of Medicine (IOM) • Hannibal K, Eisenberg C, Heggenhougen HK (2004) Integrating Human Rights into Medical Education. • Eisenberg, C. (2004) Giving Women a Break when Few Men Did. In Jerry Wiesner: Scientist, Statesman, Humanist: Memories and Memoirs by Jerome Bert Wiesner, Walter A. Rosenblith, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press ISBN 9780262182324 OCLC 52134711 • Open Letter from US Medical Leaders to 2004 Presidential Candidates (2004): “Leading Health Professional Sign-On Letter Regarding Antipersonnel Landmines to Presidential Candidates” • Eisenberg, C. (2007) Women have improved the quality of medicine: a capsule history. In DeAngelis C (Editor), Women and Medicine: A Macy Foundation Conference. New York City: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, pages 37–40. • Eisenberg, C. (1999) Keynote Address - “Without Struggle There is No Progress” - at NIH-sponsored conference, “Achieving XXcellence in Health” - Advancing Women’s Contributions to Science through Professional Societies. , cosponsored by National Institutes of Health in conjunction with National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and The American Society for Cell Biology, Washington, D.C., December 1999. pp. 21–23. 8 Presentations meetings at professional • “Juvenile Delinquency”—United Nations Conference on the Prevention of Delinquency, Tokyo, Japan, 1963 • “Psychiatric Disturbances in Adolescence”— Argentinian Congress of Child Psychiatry, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1969 • “Psychiatric Services for College Students”—Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece, 1969 • “Sexual Problems in Adolescence”—Ciba Foundation Conference, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1971 • “Pediatric Psychiatry”—Tufts University Postgraduate Course, St. Maartens, 1971 5 • “Epidemiology of Adolescent Psychiatric Disorder”—Venezuelan Congress of Psychiatry, Mérida, 1975 • “Medicine and Dental Medicine as Vocations of Service to Others”—Convocation, The University of Connecticut School of Medicine, August, 1987 • “Sexual Development”—Los Angeles County Pediatric Society, Palm Springs, California, 1975 • Commencement Speech—University of Vermont College of Medicine, May, 1988 • “Student Health”—Presentation to Venezuelan Ministry of Health, Caracas, 1976 • “College Mental Health”—Massachusetts General Hospital, Postgraduate Course, April 1989 • “Dual Career Marriages”—Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, 1977 (April) • “The Pleasures of Medicine”—invited address, University of Rochester, March, 1990 • “The Adjustment to College”—American Academy of Pediatrics, New York City, 1977 (November) • “College Life”—Presentations to Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Clubs, Mexico, London, Paris, 1980 • “Psychotherapy”—CIBA Foundation Conference, Glasgow University Medical School, 1978 • “Reproductive Freedom: The Responsibility of the Medical Profession”—Annual Meeting of the *Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., San Diego, California, 1978 • “Mental Health in Honduras: The Community Approach”—World Health Forum, Tegulcigalpa, Honduras, 1979 • “Similarities and Differences Between Men and Women as Students”—Elizabeth Garrett Symposium at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1979 • “Medical Student Life”—Presentation to Harvard Surgical Alumni Group—Chicago, Illinois, 1979 • “The Response to Trauma”—CIBA Foundation Conference, Sheffield Medical School, UK, March 1980 • Commencement Address, Harvard Medical School, June 1981 • “Clinical Research Career for Women”— Chairwoman, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1984 • “Primary Health Care”—CIBA Foundation Conference, Nottingham Medical School, United Kingdom, November, 1984 • “A Career in Medicine: Is It Still Worth It?"— A.O.A. Lecture, Case Western Reserve University, April 1986 • Commencement Speech—Albert Einstein College of Medicine, May 1987 • Symposium on Women in Medicine—invited address, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, April, 1991 • Participant, Women’s Leadership Conference, Radcliffe College, Summer, 1991 • Co-Chair, NIH Conference: “Women in Biomedical Careers” 11 June 1992 • Plenary Speaker, Conference on Women in Math, Science and Engineering, • A.A.A.S. and Women’s College Coalition, 14 November 1992 • Keynote Speaker, 75th Anniversary of the Admission of Women • Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, 8 October 1993 • Grand Rounds, Department of Pediatrics, University of Vermont: Physicians and Human Rights, 12 April 1995 • Plenary Address, Society for Behavioral Science and Medical Education, Naples, Florida, 7 October 1995 • Plenary Address, Conference on Women in Medicine, University of Rochester, 26 April 1996 • Keynote Speaker, White Coat Ceremony, New Jersey College of Medicine, Newark, 22 August 1996 • Keynote Speaker, White Coat Ceremony, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, 23 August 1996 • Plenary Speaker, Children and War, World Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, 28 August 1996 • Grand Rounds, Cambridge Hospital, 18 September 1996 • Leadership Conference, Radcliffe College, 14 December 1996 • Visiting Lecturer, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 17–28 March 1997: Human Rights and Health, War and Children, Women and Medicine 6 12 • Women’s Leadership Project, Radcliffe College, September 1997, September 1998: Sessions on: careers; race and gender; leadership roles • Chile, July–August 1986 • Speaker: The Effects of War on Children, XI International Congress of Pediatrics, The Netherlands, August 1998 • El Salvador, June 1989 • Physicians and Women’s Rights, Center for Psychological Health, Radcliffe • Grand Rounds Psychiatry, Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, February 1999 • Keynote Speaker: “Without Struggle, There Is No Progress”, Achieving XXcellence in Science, cosponsored by National Institutes of Health in conjunction with National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and The American Society for Cell Biology, Washington, D.C., December 1999. pp. 21–23. EXTERNAL LINKS • Paraguay, May 1988 11 References [1] Men’s Hospital of the Virgin of Mercy [2] Johns Hopkins Hospital [3] The limits of psychiatric reform in Argentina, 1890–1946 pp. 226-247 12 External links • Physicians for Human Rights • Radcliffe Intellectual Renewal Conference: Protecting Human Rights: Whose Job Is It? Endicott Peabody Conference Center, June 15, 2001 • Course Syllabi: “Medicine, Human Rights, and the Physician”, Carola Eisenberg & Kris Heggenhougen, Harvard Medical School, Fall 1998 through Fall 2008 Syllabus itself • Macy Conference on Psychiatry. Toronto, Canada. October 2001 • GoogleBooks: “It Is Still a Privilege to be a Doctor” in _On Doctoring_. • Jonathan Mann Lecture, University of New Mexico School of Mexico, December 2001 • PHR Profile for Dr. Carola Eisenberg • Human Rights and the Physician, University of Rochester School of Medicine, April 2002 • Rights and Responsibilities of Physicians, Bioethics Panel, 2004 Conference on International Health,MIT Hippocratic Society, Cambridge, MA, April 24–25, 2004. • Commencement Address, University of Rochester School of Medicine, May 15, 2004. 9 Other professional and academic lectures • Women’s Rights are the Key to Human Rights, 1999, CWPH Networking Breakfasts & Conferences, Center for Women’s Professional Health. Lexington, MA • Carola Eisenberg addresses Student PHR at Dartmouth College, March 2008 10 Human rights missions (with PHR) • El Salvador, January 1983 • Harvard Medical School of BostonAchieving XXcellence in Science: *Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Women in Science: Proceedings of a Workshop, AXXS 2002 (2004) • Carola Eisenberg addresses Student PHR at Dartmouth College, March 2008 • GHSM notes University of Rochester honors Dr. Carola Eisenberg with its highest award, given annually, the George Eastman Award • APA’s Human Rights Award goes jointly to Drs. Leon and Carola Eisenberg • Carola Eisenberg, M.D. papers at the Countway Medical Library of Harvard Medical School • Carola Eisenberg Archives at MIT, where she had been Dean of Students (1972–1978) before leaving to become HMS Dean of Students • Carola Eisenberg’s family. • Harvard Catalyst Profile 7 13 Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses 13.1 Text • Carola B. 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