Virginia Kneeland Frantz

Who was Virginia Kneeland Frantz?

Dr. Virginia Kneeland Frantz was a pathologist and educator credited with a series of discoveries in the study of thyroid, breast and pancreatic tumors. From 1924 to 1962 she taught surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, becoming a full professor in 1951.

Her major achievements include:

In 1935, she and Allen O. Whipple described the insulin secretion of pancreatic tumors.

In 1959, she wrote a study on tumors of the pancreas which became the standard text in the field

In 1961 she became the first female president of the American Thyroid Society.