Mildred T. Stahlman

Mildred T. Stahlman is a professor of pediatrics and pathology at Vanderbilt University. A 1943 graduate of Vanderbilt's College of Arts and Science, she earned her M.D. at Vanderbilt in 1946 and has spent her entire career at the university’s medical center.^[1]

Stahlman started the university's first newborn intensive care unit, in order to use respiratory therapy for infants with damaged lungs. In addition, she has researched methods to prevent and treat disease, developed overseas fellowship exchange programs, and initiated the Angel Transport mobile intensive-care unit for newborns.^[1] She is an author on more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on neonatal care, focusing on the care of premature infants. Her publications include several papers on ethical and moral issues concerning extreme low birth rate infants.^[2]

Stahlman received the American Pediatric Society's highest honor, the John Howland Award in 1996.

She is the daughter of James Geddes Stahlman, a Tennessee newspaper publisher and philanthropist.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Mildred Stahlman, M.D.". National Institutes of Health. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/locallegends/Biographies/Stahlman_Mildred.html. Retrieved 2009-06-10. 
2. ^ Stahlman MT (Mar 1979). "Ethical dilemmas in perinatal medicine". Journal of Pediatrics 94 (3): 516–520. PMID 423058. 

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Name	Stahlman, Mildred T.
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