Virginia Apgar and the first woman since

and the first woman since Margaret Sanger to hold the position

remains a seminal text in this field

the CEO of semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices

She then went on to receive her master’s degree

Virginia Apgar and the first woman sinceNew Jersey native Virginia Apgar graduated fourth in her class from Columbia University and in 1938, became the first woman to head a department at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, according to Jone Johnson Lewis ThoughtCo article in November 2017. While working as a professor of anesthesiology at Columbia University, Apgar made medical breakthroughs that increased infant survival rates in the US. She developed a procedure (the Apgar Newborn