Mary Allen Engle, MD Papers

Dr. Mary Allen English was born in January 26, 1922 in Madill, Oklahoma and was raised in Dallas, Texas. She married Ralph Engle in 1945. Both she and her husband were on staff at New York Hospital and Cornell University Medical College. She received a BA degree from Baylor University in 1942 and her MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1945. She did part of her residency in Baltimore, MD. From 1947-1948, she worked with Dr. Helen B. Taussig as a Fellow in Pediatric Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Taussig was a pioneer in the field of pediatric cardiology and blue baby research. She became an Assistant Resident at New York Hospital in 1948 and rose in the ranks to Attending Pediatrician in 1962. At the Cornell University Medical College, she began as an Instructor in Pediatrics and rose in the ranks to Professor of Pediatrics in 1969. In 1949-1950, she worked as a fellow in Pediatrics Cardiology and in Pharmacology with Dr. Henry Gold. In 1949-1969, she was the Director of Pediatric Electrocardiography and from 1952-1955, she served as the Medical Director of the Institute in the Care of Premature Infants. She was the director of Pediatric Phonocardiography from 1958-1969. In 1962, she became the first Director of Department of Pediatric Cardiology. In 1979, she became the Stavros S. Niarchos Professor of Pediatric Cardiology.

She was a pioneer in Pediatric Cardiology. She won the M.R. Greenberg Distinguished Service Award in 1991. In 1973, she established the Greek Children Cardiac Program to send Greek children to the United States for cardiac diagnosis and surgery.

She was involved in numerous societies and wrote 350 publications.

She died January 27, 2008.