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Carola B. Eisenberg | |
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Born | Carola Blitzman September 15, 1917 Argentina |
Died | March 11, 2021 Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 103)
Citizenship | Argentina, then U.S. (naturalized 1949)[citation needed] |
Occupation(s) | Psychiatrist, child psychiatrist, medical educator |
Known for | Physicians for Human Rights |
Spouse(s) | Manfred Guttmacher (deceased) Leon Eisenberg (deceased) |
Children | Alan Edward Guttmacher Laurence Guttmacher |
Carola Blitzman Eisenberg (September 15, 1917 – March 11, 2021) was an Argentine-American psychiatrist who became the first woman to hold the position of Dean of Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1978 to 1990, she was the dean of student affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She was a long-time lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS (formerly the Department of Social Medicine). She was also both a founding member of Physicians for Human Rights and an honorary psychiatrist with the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. After retiring, she was involved in human rights work through Physicians for Human Rights, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and elsewhere. She turned 100 in September 2017[1] and died in Lincoln, Massachusetts, in March 2021 at the age of 103.[2]