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<p>As a young physician, Dr. Irené Ferrer was the first woman
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to serve as chief resident at Bellevue Hospital,
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where she was given a prestigious opportunity:
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to work with a leading team of cardiologists
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who were developing the cardiac catheter.
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Had it not been for the lack of male candidates
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during World War II, it is unlikely that
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a woman physician would have been given such a chance.
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But Dr. Ferrer played a vital role in the project.
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The catheter was an important step toward open-heart
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surgery and earned the team a Nobel Prize in 1956.
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Dr. Ferrer also collaborated with IBM to make computerized
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interpretation of electrocardiograms possible for the first time.
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From 1953 to 1986, she was director of the
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Electrocardiographics Department at Doctors Hospital.
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Since 1986, she has served as an honorary consultant at
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Presbyterian and St. Luke’s-Roosevelt and is
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professor emeritus at Columbia University.
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Special among her many honors, is the M. Irené Ferrer
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Professorship in Women’s Health and Gender-specific Medicine
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at Columbia University, established in her name by the
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Partnership for Women’s Health founded and directed
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by Dr. Marianne Legato.
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Dr. Marianne Legato was one of the many younger physicians
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Dr. Irené Ferrer mentored in an extraordinary way
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throughout her career. When Marianne Legato left medical
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school because she could not afford the tuition,
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Dr. Ferrer convinced the Dean to let Legato return
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and paid for the rest of her education.
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(Dr. Marianne Legato): “And Dr. Ferrer herself went back and
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personally called on the Dean of NYU and said, ‘I’m gonna pay
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for this, young woman’s education. I will guarantee a
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good performance, and I want you to take her back’, which he did.
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After that I became really a member of the Ferrer family,
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and they were a wonderful, wonderful force in my own life
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and in my own development. It was a wonderful family to which
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I had sort of been added, and they really made my career possible.”
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Dr. Ferrer’s contribution to the development of
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the cardiac catheter and the compelling example
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she gave to medical students was based on her
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extraordinary relationship with her patients.
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(Dr. Marianne Legato): “She became devoted to many of her patients,
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whom she dearly loved. Her love of patients was really remarkable
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and one of the things about her that made her so engaging as a
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role model for us. So that combination of intellectual brilliance
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and real love of the patient was sort of a winning combination
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for those of us who were lucky enough to be her students.”</p>
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