Oral history interview with Nanette Wenger (captioned video, audio, and transcript)

Oral history interview with Nanette Wenger (captioned video, audio, and transcript)

Women in medicine
Medical education
Women physicians
Oral histories (literary works)
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Cardiology
Heart diseases in women
Congenital heart disease
Jewish physicians
Jewish women physicians

This oral history of Nanette Wenger was conducted by Laura Ettinger in two sessions on 08 December 2025 and 22 December 2025. The total run time of the interviews is 3H59M55S. In the first interview, Wenger discusses her early life in New York; her education at Hunter College, New York and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; her medical training and clinical teachers at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York; her career as a cardiologist at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia; her role in changing the culture of treating Black patients in demeaning ways in a segregated hospital; her clinical research in cardiac rehabilitation, CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), and how heart attacks present in women.
In the second interview, Wenger discusses heart disease in women and in elderly people and these groups' underrepresentation in cardiology research; Wenger's leadership style and status as the first woman leader in a variety of cardiology organizations; education and awareness campaigns for heart health; implementing cardiac rehabilitation at Grady Memorial Hospital; and her role in community and charitable organizations.

Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation

Oral history conducted in two sessions:
2025-12-08
2025-12-22

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Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation records, 1998-2024 (inclusive). H MS c420.

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1 oral history (2 separate recordings totaling 3H59M55S), 1 transcript with a biographical summary and timestamped table of contents (76 pages)

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Accession #2027-004.

Gift of the Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation in 2026.

Laura Ettinger

Nanette Wenger

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Two sessions totaling 3H59M55S
Session 1: 1H49M13S
Session 2: 2H10M42S