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Catharine Macfarlane (1877–1969) was an American

obstetrician and gynecologist who founded one of the first screening centers

for uterine cancer in the

United States. She was the first woman fellow of the College of

Physicians of Philadelphia, and the first woman president of the

Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia. Catherine Macfarlane entered the

University of Philadelphia in 1893 and earned her Bachelor of Science in

Biology in 1895. By 1898 she earned her medical degree from the Women’s Medical

College of Pennsylvania. Macfarlane interned at the Women’s Hospital of

Philadelphia from the end of her medical education to 1900. During

her time interning at the Women’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Macfarlane held the

position of instructor in obstetrics at the Women’s Medical College of

Pennsylvania. She began a private practice in 1900 and continued this until

1903 at which time she accepted a position with the Women’s Medical College of

Pennsylvania as an instructor of gynecology. In her last year of private

practice, she became the first practitioner to use radium in cancer treatment.

After accepting the position of instructor of gynecology at the Women's Medical

College of Pennsylvania, Macfarlane pursued graduate study in urology,

obstetrics, gynecology, and radiology between 1903 and 1905. In 1908 she was

appointed chief of gynecology at Women’s Hospital in Philadelphia and in 1913

she was admitted to the American College of Surgeons. In 1922, Macfarlane was

appointed professor of gynecology at the Women’s Medical College of

Pennsylvania. This same year she attended the first Pennsylvania State Conference

on Birth Control alongside Margaret Sanger to advocate for women's right to

vote and obtain birth control. Two years later in 1924, Catherine Macfarlane

was appointed Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Philadelphia General

Hospital and accepted the position of research professor of gynecology at

Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania which she held until death. In 1938,

Macfarlane co-founded the Cancer Control Research Project at the Woman’s

Medical College of Philadelphia. The same year, she received a grant from the

Committee on Clinical Research of the American Medical Association to establish

a cancer research and prevention clinic alongside which she opened the first

uterine cancer screening program in the United States. In 1962, near the end of

her career, Macfarlane began research on self-breast exams with the

Philadelphia Division of the American Cancer Society.  In 1936, Macfarlane was appointed to the head

of the Medical Women’s National Association, later renamed the American Medical

Women’s Association. A year later, in 1937, she was appointed to the position

of Vice President of the Medical Women’s International Association which she

held until 1947.[1] The same year, in 1947, her five-year tenure

as the chairman of the Cancer Committee of the Philadelphia Medical Society

ended. Macfarlane served as the president of the Obstetrical Society of

Philadelphia from 1943 to 1944. In 1948 Macfarlane was the first woman to be

awarded the Strittmatter Award. In 1949 she was awarded the Gimbel Award for

humanitarian service. In 1951, Macfarlane was jointly awarded the Lasker Award for

Clinical Medical Research for her applications of preventive

medicine to cancer control. In 1953, Macfarlane was awarded the first annual

Mary Silberman Award for her work on cancer prevention.

"Uterine Cancer Pioneer" Catharine Macfarlane, MD Hand Signed TLS Dated 1941

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