APGAR Score

Virginia Apgar, MD, (d. 1974) was an obstetrical anesthesiologist. Her eponymous score was the first to rate baby health at the time of birth. Through work at the March of Dimes, she was the first to shine light on the problem of premature birth. She was the first woman to be named Full Professor at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and is famously credited as saying that “women are liberated from the time they leave the womb.”