Olive Louise Berger

Olive Louise Berger

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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May 30th: End-of-Block Divisional Meetings

June 6th: Donald W. Benson Lecture on Pain Medicine: The Clinician-Scientist, Pain Medicine, and Entrepreneurship: A Case Study – James N. Campbell, M.D.
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June 7th: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Biennial Meeting
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June 13th: ACCM Research-sponsored Grand Rounds: Anesthesia and developmental neurotoxicity: Are we closer to understanding the truth? – Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic, M.D.

7th Robert A. Abraham, M.D. Endowed Lectureship: Maintenance of Epidural Labor Analgesia, From Bolus to Infusion to Bolus – Cynthia Wong, M.D.
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