Brigid Leventhal

Brigid Gray Leventhal (August 31, 1935 – February 6, 1994) was a British-American pediatric oncologist. She was the first director of the Pediatric Oncology Division at Johns Hopkins University, a position she held from 1976 to 1984. She was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.

Early life Leventhal was born Brigid Gray in 1935 in London. Her family migrated to Los Angeles in 1940 to escape the Blitz. After graduating from Hollywood High School in 1950, she studied for a year at a Swiss boarding school before enrolling at UCLA. She graduated in psychology from UCLA in 1955 and began to study medicine there before transferring to Harvard Medical School. When she graduated from Harvard in 1960, she was one of only six women in her graduating class. She stepped down as head of the Pediatric Oncology Division in 1984.

Leventhal died of cancer in 1994 in Columbia, Maryland.

Honors Leventhal received the Federal Women's Award in 1974 and was named Outstanding Career Woman in 1979 by the National Council of Women. In 1992, Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke designated July 29 as Brigid G. Leventhal Day in Baltimore. Leventhal was posthumously inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 1996.