Virginia Kneeland Frantz

Dr. Virginia Kneeland Frantz (1896 - 1967) was a pathologist and educator credited with a series of discoveries in the study of thyroid, breast and pancreatic tumors. From 1924 to 1962 she taught surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, becoming a full professor in 1951.

Her major achievements include:
* In 1935, she and Allen O. Whipple described the insulin secretion of pancreatic tumors.
* In 1959, she wrote a study on tumors of the pancreas which became the standard text in the field

* In 1961 she became the first female president of the American Thyroid Society.

References

* [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_120.html biography]