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Doris Siegel (1914-1971) was the director of the Mount Sinai Hospital Social Service Department from 1954 to 1971. She was made the first Edith J. Baerwald Professor of Community Medicine (Social Work) in 1969. Doris Siegel’s inauguration for this position represented two large firsts; this was the first endowed social work chair at a medical school in the United States and the first woman in an endowed professor position at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Siegel attended Simmons College, graduating in 1935 and then received her Master's degree in social work from the Simmons College of Social Work. In 1970, Simmons College awarded her an alumni achievement award. From 1936-1940, she worked in the social service department at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. Following that, she directed the Social Service Department at Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh until 1945, when she became a consultant at the United States Children’s Bureau in Washington DC, a post she held until coming to Mout Sinai in 1954, where she oversaw great growth in social services at Mount Sinai until 1971.
Siegel held various other committee positions. She was the Chairman of the professional advisory committee of the United Hospital Fund. She served on the City Health Department, the American Cancer Society’s New York chapter, the Regional Medical Program of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the National Association of Social Workers and the Community Council of Greater New York. She also served on the editorial board of Social Case Work.
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Biographical note written by Lily Stowe-Alekman in Summer 2020.
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Niss, Barbara J., and Arthur H., Jr. Aufses. Teaching Tomorrow's Medicine Today: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1963-2003, New York University Press, 2005.
"Doris Siegel, Services Director At Mt. Sinai Hospital, Dies at 57.” New York Times, July 27, 1971. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/27/archives/doris-siegel-services-director-a-t-mr-sinai-hospital-dies-at-57.html