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Myrtelle May Moore Canavan〔(Dr. Myrtelle Canavan, M.D. ) HMS/HSDM Joint Committee on the Status of Women (JCSW) Accessed July 21, 2009.〕 (June 24, 1879 – 1953) was an American physician and medical researcher. She was one of the first female pathologists and is best known for publishing a description of Canavan disease in 1931. ==Life and career== Born in Greenbush Township, near St. Johns, Michigan, Canavan studied at (Michigan) State Agricultural College (now Michigan State University), the University of Michigan Medical School, and Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, from which she received her M.D. in 1905.〔( Canavan, Myrtelle M. (Myrtelle May), b. 1879. Papers, 1898-1945: Finding Aid. ) Harvard University Library Online Archival Search Information System. Biographical Note. Accessed July 21, 2009.〕 In 1905 she married Dr. James F. Canavan.〔 In 1907 she was appointed assistant bacteriologist at Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts, where she met Elmer Ernest Southard, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School, who encouraged her interest in neuropathology.〔〔(Dr. Myrtelle May Canavan ) National Library of Medicine: Changing the Face of Medicine: Physicians. Accessed July 21, 2009.〕 In 1910 she became resident pathologist at Boston State Hospital and in 1914 was appointed pathologist to the Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases. She was also an instructor of neuropathology at the University of Vermont.〔 After Southard's death in 1920, Canavan became acting director of the laboratories of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, which would later become the Massachusetts Mental Health Center.〔 From 1920 until her retirement in 1945, she was an associate professor of neuropathology at Boston University and curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard Medical School, where she added more than 1,500 specimens and also improved record-keeping and discarded damaged specimens.〔〔〔(Mentor 1: Myrtelle M. Canavan ) The Stethoscope Sorority: Stories from the Archives for Women in Medicine. Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library of Medicine. Accessed July 21, 2009.〕 However, her official title was "assistant curator" because of objections to a woman heading the museum, and she was never appointed to the Harvard faculty.〔〔 Canavan died of Parkinson's disease in 1953.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Myrtelle Canavan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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