Olive Louise Berger
Olive Louise Berger by I. Hunner Parsons; oil on canvas, 27.5 by 20.5 inches, undated.

Olive Louise Berger was born in Montclair, New Jersey. She graduated from the School of Nursing at Roosevelt Hospital in New York in 1920 and from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Anesthesiology in 1922. She was chief nurse anesthetist and director of the anesthesia school for nurses at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1931 until her retirement in 1969. Berger served as the first nurse to administer anesthesia during the famous "blue baby" operations performed by Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig in the 1940s. In 1952, she was made an instructor in anesthesia in the school of medicine. 

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The Olive Louise Berger Collection

Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine

M. Merrie Griffin, CRNA
Chief; Division of
Nurse Anesthesia
Department of Anesthesia
and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine
Blalock 1415
600 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287-4965

410-955-1675 (office)
410-283-5867 (pager)
merriegriffin@jhu.edu

410-502-CRNA
410-502-2762
crna@jhmi.edu

 

Agnes Brooker CRNA
Associate Chief; Division of
Nurse Anesthesia
Department of Anesthesiology
and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Outpatient Center B165
601 North Caroline Street
Baltimore, MD 21287

abrooker@jhmi.edu

 

Mary Scott-Herring, MSN, CRNA
Clinical Coordinator of Graduate
Nurse Anesthesia Education
Department of Anesthesiology
and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Blalock 1404
600 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287

410-283-2987 (office)
410-955-4858 (fax)
mscotth2@jhmi.edu

410-502-CRNA
410-502-2762
crna@jhmi.edu

 

Lauren Freedman, MSN, CRNA
Director of CRNA Manpower
Department of Anesthesiology
and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
600 N. Wolfe Street
Blalock 1404
Baltimore, MD 21287

410-283-2987 (office)
410-955-4858 (fax)
lfreedm1@jhmi.edu

410-502-CRNA
410-502-2762
crna@jhmi.edu

 

Juanita Taylor
Administrative Coordinator
CRNA Coordinator
Department of Anesthesiology
and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Blalock 1415
600 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287-4965

410-502-CRNA
410-502-2762
crna@jhmi.edu

 
   
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