1915

Founding of Medical Women’s National Assn. (later changed to American Medical Women’s Assn.) by active feminists in Chicago with Bertha Van Hoosen, president (Morantz-Sanchez, 274-75), but only militant feminists joined, never more than 1/3 of women physicians in country (279). Founding of Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease in NYC, led by Lewis Connor and reflecting public health cardiologists’ commitment to the new notion of prevention (Fye 2, 43-44). Creation of American Board for Ophthalmic Examinations, under Edward Jackson, as first medical specialty board (Stevens, 111-114).