Most Powerful Moms in Health Care
Most Powerful Moms in Health Care
Meet ten working mothers who in some way are shaping health care–from policy makers in the White House to consumer advocates, to leaders at medical schools and hopital facilities, from insurance companies to charitable causes. These women have found a way to rise through the ranks and take their families along with them.
by Leah Bourne for workingmother.com
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Nancy Andrews, MD
Top Mom Medical Dean
Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD
51, Dean of Duke University Medical School, Durham, North Carolina
Kids: Camille, 17; Nicholas, 14
Today more than half of the students attending medical school are women. However this trend hasn’t seemed to have a dramatic impact on the leadership within medical schools. Today Dr. Nancy Andrews is the only dean of a top ten medical school in the US. Andrews, who attended Harvard Medical School, rose through the ranks in Boston. She became an attending physician in hematology and oncology at Boston’s Children’s Hospital, became the director of the Harvard-MIT MD-PhD program and then dean for basic sciences and graduate studies at Harvard Medical School. When Andrews was named dean of Duke Medical School in Durham, North Carolina in 2007, she was the first woman to hold the position.
