Catherine D. DeAngelis

Catherine D. DeAngelis is an American pediatrician and medical editor, the first woman and the first pediatrician to become editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, a post she took up around 1999 to 2000 and left in July 2011. She grew up in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, finished a registered nurse program in 1960, and worked as a nurse while studying at Wilkes University and the University of Pittsburgh, where she obtained her MD in 1969. After a pediatrics residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a public health degree at Harvard, she led general pediatrics and adolescent medicine at Johns Hopkins, became a full professor in 1984 and vice dean for academic affairs and faculty in 1990, pushing a curriculum with more patient contact and more opportunity for women. She wrote the textbook Pediatric Primary Care and received the John Howland Award of the American Pediatric Society in 2015.