Marie Charlotte Schaefer (June 24, 1874 - May 27, 1927) was an early Texas physician and the first woman to become a faculty member of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB).
Marie Charlotte Schaefer (June 24, 1874 - May 27, 1927) was an early Texas physician and the first woman to become a faculty member of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB).
Schaefer was born in San Antonio, Texas and attended San Antonio High School where she graduated as the salutatorian in 1893. [1] After high school, she taught for a year and then enrolled in the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in 1895. [1] She earned her medical degree in 1900 and then did a year-long residency in pathology at the John Sealy Hospital. [1] At the hospital, she worked on the pathology of hookworms. [2] [3]
In 1901, she became the first woman faculty member of UTMB. [4] She gave the opening speech on the first day of school at UTMB in 1912. [5] In 1915, she became a full professor of embryology and ten years later in 1925, a full professor of histology. [6] On May 27, 1927 she suffered from a sudden illness due to heart disease and died the same day. [1] Schaefer was buried in San Antonio and former students of hers served as pallbearers. [1] Schaefer's medical drawings are in the collection of the UTMB Moody Medical Library. [7]
John Sealy Hospital is a hospital that is a part of the University of Texas Medical Branch complex in Galveston, Texas, United States.
Galveston is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The community of 209.3 square miles (542 km2), with a population of 53,695 in 2020, is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county. It is also within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area at its southern end on the northwestern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Galveston County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas, located along the Gulf Coast adjacent to Galveston Bay. As of the 2020 census, its population was 350,682. The county was founded in 1838. The county seat is the City of Galveston, founded the following year, and located on Galveston Island. The most-populous municipality in the county is League City, a suburb of Houston at the northern end of the county, which surpassed Galveston in population during the early 2000s.
The University of Texas System is a public university system in the U.S. state of Texas. It includes nine universities and five independent health institutions. The UT System is headquartered in Downtown Austin. Its total enrollment of nearly 240,000 students is the largest university system in Texas. It employs 21,000 faculty and more than 83,000 health care professionals, researchers and support staff. The UT System's $30 billion endowment is the largest of any public university system in the United States.
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"support of a charitable undertaking in the City of Galveston, Texas, for the construction, remodeling, enlarging, equipping, and furnishing of the John Sealy Hospital, and other hospital building or buildings in the City of Galveston in connection with the John Sealy Hospital in said city, and endowment thereof, for the use of the people of said City of Galveston and providing them with the necessary medical care and attention therein."
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