On Retiring, Dr. Lucy Rorke-Adams Reflects on 50 Years at CHOP as a Pioneering Pediatric Neuropathologist
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 08:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Rorke-Adams, 86, was the only female president in the 188-year history of Philadelphia General Hospital. She went on to become acting chair of Pathology at CHOP, president of the American Association of Neuropathology, a Penn professor, and an international expert on pediatric brain tumors and shaken baby syndrome. And she was the guardian of a sample of Albert Einstein's brain until donating the slide to the Mutter Museum in 2008.