Helen Iglauer Glueck

Helen Iglauer Glueck (1907 to 1995) was an American physician known for research in blood chemistry that linked bleeding disorders in newborns to a lack of vitamin K in breast milk. She finished high school in Cincinnati in 1925, took her bachelor degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her medical degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She directed the University of Cincinnati Student Health Services from 1945 to 1959 and then directed the university Coagulation Laboratory. Her honours include the 1979 YWCA Career Woman of the Year, the 1985 Hebrew Union College Founders Medal, the 1985 University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Daniel Drake Award and a 1993 naming as a Great Living Cincinnatian. She was the wife of Nelson Glueck.