Elise L'Esperance

Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance (1878–1958) was an American pathologist and physician, a pioneer in establishing a preventive model of cancer treatment. She was a pathologist noted for establishing cancer prevention clinics in New York. She founded two clinics: the Strang Tumor Clinic in 1932 and the Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic in 1937, which operated out of the New York Infirmary. In 1940, L'Esperance opened a second branch of the Strang Cancer Prevention Clinic at the Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases. During her medical career, L'Esperance published her research prolifically, credited for approximately 30 articles in medical journals.

Early life and education

Elise L'Esperance was born in Yorktown, New York to Albert Strang, a physician, and Kate Depew Strang. Inspired by her father, she pursued a career in medicine and attended the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, earning her M.D. there in 1900. Interested in pediatrics, L'Esperance spent a year working at Babies Hospital in New York. She then worked for two years at a private pediatric practice in Detroit, Michigan.

Career

In 1908, she turned to medical research.
In 1920, she became professor of pathology at Cornell University Medical College. In 1948–1949, she was president of the American Medical Women's Association. In 1946, she was the first editor of the ''Journal of the American Medical Women's Association''.

References

American pathologists
1878 births
1959 deaths
American women physicians
People from Yorktown, New York
20th-century American women scientists
20th-century American scientists
Recipients of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
Scientists from New York (state)

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