Florence Pat Haseltine

Florence Pat Haseltine (born 1942) is a U.S. physician,[1][2] biophysicist, reproductive endocrinologist, journal editor, novelist, inventor, and advocate for women's health. She has been diagnosed with dyslexia. She built a diverse career in medicine. An associate professor at Yale University, her work specializes in obstetrics and gynecology as well as women's rights and gender bias in medicine. While at Yale, Haseltine established the embryology laboratory, which was one of the early labs to have a successful IVF baby, and the Microscope used is now in Historical Collections of the National Museum of Health and Medicine (Catalog number is M- 030.10091).[3]

Florence Pat Haseltine
Born (1942-08-17) August 17, 1942
United States
Alma materUniversity of California at Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forObstetrics, gynecology, women's rights, gender bias
AwardsAmerican Woman's Medical Association Scientist Award
The Kilby International Laureates Award
Barbara Eck Menning Founder's Award
Alma Dea Morani, M.D. Renaissance Woman Award
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysics, reproductive endocrinology and infertility
InstitutionsNational Institutes of Health
Yale University
The University of Texas at Arlington
Doctoral studentsDenise Faustman, Terri L. Cornelison
Florence Haseltine, 2017, at the SALSS conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

Haseltine is currently a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Nursing at The University of Texas at Arlington and serves as the Medical Director of the North Texas Genome Center where she currently manages the COVID-19 testing program.

Education and career

Haseltine grew up in a family of scientists in China Lake, California. She and her siblings, William A. Haseltine, Eric Haseltine, and Susan Haseltine have all pursued careers in science and technology. She received her B.S. in physics/biophysics from University of California at Berkeley. She earned a Ph.D. in 1970 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.D. in 1972 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed her internship at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and did her residency in medicine in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Boston Hospital for Women. She also served as assistant and associate professor in the Department of Ob/Gyn and Pediatrics at Yale University. Dr. Haseltine is a Presidential Distinguished Professor of Nursing at University of Texas at Arlington.

She has faced gender bias throughout her education and career. This was described in a book which she co-wrote (with Yvonne Yaw) entitled Woman Doctor:[4] "a ... novel that reveals the level of gender bias against women in the medical profession during the 1960s and 1970s."[5]

From 1985 to 2012 she was the director of the Center for Population Research at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health. In 1990, she founded the Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research[6] with other women who, like herself, were advocates for women's health through their work in federal programs or on academic campuses. She was interviewed for the Oral History Collection on Women in Medicine, currently archived at Drexel University, College of Medicine, Legacy Collection.[7] She was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Women's Health since 1992, and she edited the comprehensive report Women's Health Research: A Medical and Policy Primer published by the Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research 1997. Dr. Haseltine also founded Haseltine Systems,Inc[8] in 1995, a company that designs products for people with disabilities. Haseltine Systems Incorporated's mission is to improve the mobility of people using wheelchairs. Dr. Haseltine holds two for the Haseltine Flyer, a portable protective container for wheelchairs to be used on airplanes, to allow wheelchair users to travel more easily.[9] Dr. Haseltine also holds multiple patents related to Secure Internet Communications.[10] Following her retirement in 2012, she developed interactive websites and smart device websites that both inform the public about scientific and medical advances and also develop internal sites for networks of scientists. She developed an iPad application titled “Human Genome”. The Human Genome App is designed so that a person can obtain information about a known gene or discover relationships between genes and diseases, syndromes or traits. In her Emerita status she worked with not-for-profit medical advocacy and research organizations, developing a public internet presence, e.g. the Global Virus Network.[11] In 2019, she returned to academia.

Awards and recognition

Haseltine has been recognized for her contributions in the field of women's health & reproductive science by election to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). She is also a Weizmann Honored Scientist; a Kass Lecturer; a recipient of the American Woman's Medical Association Scientist Award; a recipient of The Kilby International Laureates Award;[12] a Health Hero honoree of the American Health For Women Magazine; a Prevention Magazine "Hall of Fame" honoree; Ladies' Home Journal "Champions of Women's Health" honoree; the Advocacy Award from Research America for the Society for Women's Health Research; received the Barbara Eck Menning Founder's Award.[13] She also received the UNFPA Lifetime Achievement Award in October, 2012.[14] In 2013 she was awarded the Alma Dea Morani, M.D. Renaissance Woman Award.[15] In 2015 she was elected as a fellow to the National Academy of Inventors.

Scientific sphere of influence

Haseltine was a mentor of Dr. Denise Faustman who is currently doing ground-breaking research on Type 1 Diabetes. Dr. Faustman specializes in diabetes mellitus type 1 (formerly called juvenile diabetes) and other autoimmune diseases.[16]

Haseltine was also a mentor to Dr. Geoffrey M. Cooper, Emeritus Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Boston University.

Haseltine and her husband Alan Chodos participated in the Student Action Coordinating Committee (SACC) and donated their papers and photographs to the National Museum of American History.[17] Additional materials are achieved at Drexel University College of Medicine Legacy Center and at the Oral History Project from the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine exhibit at the Countway Library and in the Yale University Oral Histories.

Bibliography
  • Haseltine, F. (2000). "Gender differences in addiction and recovery". Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine. 9 (6): 579–583. doi:10.1089/15246090050118080.
  • Haseltine, F. (1999). The changing face of women's health. Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine, 8(10), 1219–1220.[18]
  • Haseltine, F. (1998). Learning: women's health. Journal of Women's Health, 7(8), 935.[19]
  • Haseltine, F. P. (2002). "Maintaining Fairness: Who Gets Funded at NIH, and Is the Process Fair?". Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine: 569–570. doi:10.1089/152460902760360504.
  • Haseltine, F. P. (1999, May). Redressing the Future. Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine. p. 429.
  • Haseltine, F. P. (2000). "Cloning and the Politics of Women's Health". Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine: 211. doi:10.1089/152460900318407.
  • Haseltine, F. P. (1998, October). Learning: Women's Health. Journal of Women's Health. p. 935.
  • Haseltine, F. P. (1997). "New Ways of Making Babies: The case of egg donation". New England Journal of Medicine. 336 (12): 884. doi:10.1056/NEJM199703203361221.
gollark: Aren't there already projects doing that with SDRs?
gollark: Others too.
gollark: "The City and the City" of something?
gollark: I think I've heard of a ton of books using that sort of thing as a premise.
gollark: I think an interesting solution to this sort of issue is federated social networks, but they have their own scale issues and also nobody uses them.

References
  1. "Dr. Florence Pat Haseltine." U.S. News & World Report, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2013.
  2. Department of Health, Virginia. "Florence Pat Haseltine, MD Physician Detail." Virginia Health Information, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2013.
  3. "Historical Collections of the National Museum of Health and Medicine" https://www.medicalmuseum.mil
  4. Woman Doctor: Florence Haseltine & Yvonne Yaw: 9780345301505. Ballantine Books, n.d. Web. 02 Nov. 2013. <https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Doctor-Florence-Haseltine/dp/0345301501>
  5. "Dr. Florence Pat Haseltine" https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_140.html
  6. "About Us: Board of Directors: Florence Haseltine, M.D., Ph.D. - Society for Women's Health Research." About Us: Board of Directors: Florence Haseltine, M.D., Ph.D. - Society for Women's Health Research. Ed. Society for Women's Health Research. The Society for Women's Health Research, n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2013. <http://www.womenshealthresearch.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_haseltine)>.
  7. http://archives.drexelmed.edu/collect/guide/oh.php
  8. "Haseltine Systems: Suitcases for Wheelchairs." Haseltine Systems Suitcases for Wheelchairs. Haseltine Systems Inc., n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2013. <http://haseltine.com/>.
  9. "Interview with Florence Haseltine, Ph.D., M.D., August 8, 1977." Interview conducted by Joyce Antler, Ph.D. Oral History Project on Women in Medicine. (Philadelphia: Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1978), pp. 29, 30, 31, 40 (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_140.html
  10. Providing electronic access to consumer-customized nonverbal information regarding products and services (Patent # 7,174,306) 2010 Method and apparatus for obtaining images of merchandise as arranged by a customer (Patent #7,765,129) 2012 Providing electronic access to consumer-customized nonverbal information regarding products and services (Patent #8,175,929)
  11. http://gvn.org
  12. Kilby International Awards
  13. Yaw, Yvonne, and Haseltine Florence. Woman Doctor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. Print. "Florence Pat Haseltine, MD- Physician Detail. Virginia Health Information, N.D. Web. 15 Sept. 2013. <http://www.vhi.org/phys_detail_print.asp?lic=0101239899>
  14. Haseltine, Florence. "LinkedIn: Florence Pat Haseltine." LinkedIn.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2013. <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/florence-haseltine/4/979/aa9>.
  15. http://www.fhwim.org/programs/admorani_award.php
  16. "Faustman Lab Website". Retrieved June 24, 2011.
  17. "Science and political protest: A Q&A with Dr. Florence Haseltine". Retrieved March 4, 2020.
  18. Haseltine, F. (1999). The changing face of women's health. Journal of Women's Health & Gender-Based Medicine, 8(10), 1219-1220.
  19. Haseltine, F. (1998). Learning: women's health. Journal of Women's Health, 7(8), 935.
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