Brigid Gray Leventhal (August 31, 1935 – February 6, 1994)^[1] was a British-Americanpediatriconcologist. She was the first director of the Pediatric Oncology Division atJohns Hopkins University, a position she held from 1976 to 1984. She was inducted into theMaryland Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.

Leventhal was born Brigid Gray in 1935 inLondon. Her family migrated toLos Angeles in 1940 to escapethe Blitz. After graduating fromHollywood High School in 1950, she studied for a year at a Swiss boarding school before enrolling atUCLA. She graduated in psychology from UCLA in 1955 and began to study medicine there before transferring toHarvard Medical School.^[2] When she graduated from Harvard in 1960, she was one of only six women in her graduating class.^[1]

After completing medical school, Leventhal was an intern andpediatric resident atMassachusetts General Hospital. She served as a resident atBoston City Hospital for one year and completed a one-year fellowship inhematology atSt. Elizabeth's Medical Center. In 1964, she moved toBethesda, Maryland, to work at theNational Cancer Institute. At the NCI, she sat on theRecombinant DNA Advisory Committee and a subcommittee onhuman gene therapy; she headed theChemoimmunotherapy Section from 1973 to 1976.^[2] Leventhal was hired byJohns Hopkins University in 1976 as a professor of pediatrics and oncology and the first director of Johns Hopkins' Pediatric Oncology Division. While developing new treatments forchildhood cancers, she established the inpatient unit and outpatient clinics for pediatric oncology patients.^[3] She stepped down as head of the Pediatric Oncology Division in 1984.^[2] During her career, Leventhal published 135 research papers, 52 book chapters, and a textbook titledResearch Methods in Clinical Oncology.^[4]

Leventhal died of cancer in 1994 inColumbia, Maryland.^[4]

Leventhal received the Federal Women's Award in 1974 and was named Outstanding Career Woman in 1979 by theNational Council of Women. In 1992, Baltimore MayorKurt Schmoke designated July 29 as Brigid G. Leventhal Day in Baltimore. Leventhal was posthumously inducted into theMaryland Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.^[1]

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