Elise L'Esperance
American pathologist and physician
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Elise L'Esperance was born in Yorktown, New York, to Albert Strang, a physician, and Kate Depew Strang. Inspired by her father, she pursued a career in medicine and attended the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, earning her M.D. there in 1900. Interested in pediatrics, L'Esperance spent a year working at Babies Hospital in New York. She then worked for two years at a private pediatric practice in Detroit, Michigan.
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Career
In 1908, she turned to medical research. In 1920, she became professor of pathology at Cornell University Medical College. In 1948–1949, she was president of the American Medical Women's Association. In 1946, she was the first editor of the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association.