Caroline Augusta Chandler

Caroline Augusta Chandler (1906–1979 ) was an American pediatrician and child mental health specialist. Her efforts to recruit more young women into the field of medicine included writing books for young girls about the profession.

Education Chandler was born in Ford City, Pennsylvania, followed by Barnard College, and at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, on childhood rheumatic fever and hypertension, and the use of sulfanilamide in preventing recurring attacks of rheumatic fever.

Career During World War II, Chandler left the laboratory to carry out a special project for the Children's Bureau in Washington, D.C. After the war, she returned to Johns Hopkins as full-time Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Her research included the use of antibiotics, including their effects in vitro.

However, as her interests in community groups and agencies grew, she had to limit her work to part-time. After serving three years as medical director of the Family and Children's Society, In 1961, Chandler joined the staff at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) During all of these assignments, she remained an assistant professor of pediatrics and preventive medicine, and instructor of mental hygiene, at Johns Hopkins.

After writing articles about pediatrics, Chandler was approached by the children's editor of a publishing house to write about a woman doctor, for a series of career books for teenage girls. both fictional and factual, in an effort to recruit more young women into the field of medicine. The characters in her fictional books mirrored Chandler's own life in many respects, although she never married. Nursing as a Career 1970