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Teresa J. Vietti is an American physician and professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She was born on November 5, 1927 in Washington, D.C. She attended the University of Washington, where she earned her medical degree in 1952.
Vietti has had a long and distinguished career in pediatrics. She was the first woman to be appointed to the faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine in 1962, and she served as the first female chair of the Department of Pediatrics from 1975 to 1983. She was also the first woman to be elected president of the American Pediatric Society in 1983.
Vietti has received numerous awards and honors for her work, including the American Academy of Pediatrics' Distinguished Service Award in 1985 and the American Pediatric Society's highest honor, the John Howland Medal, in 1989. She was also inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.
Vietti is currently 83 years old. She is married and has two children. Her net worth is not publicly available.
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Vietti died on January 25, 2010 at the Missouri Baptist Medical Center in Town and Country of natural causes; her health had been deteriorating for the previous few months. In 2013, Washington University created 3 pediatric scholar positions, one of which was named after Vietti.
In 1976, Vietti earned the UNICO Award. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Pediatric Hematology-Oncology in 1994. The Leukemia Society of America presented her with their Return of the Child Award in 1999. Washington University awarded her the Second Century Award in 2007.
She published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and was known to remove her name from some studies so that younger researchers would get greater exposure for their work. Vietti co-authored Clinical Pediatric Oncology (1973) which has four editions and according to Washington University is "one of the premier texts in its field." She was an editor of the Journal of Pediatric Hematology and a co-editor of Clinical Pediatric Oncology.
In 1962, she received word that her sister, Ardel Vietti was kidnapped and was being held a prisoner of the Viet Cong. Vietti would never see her sister again, but she did talk about her for the 1998 radio program, The Only Woman Left Behind.
In 1962 and 1963, she was a principal investigator in a Washington University study on the effects of lead intoxication in children. In 1970, Vietti received a grant from the St. Louis Leukemia Guild to study treatments for leukemia. In 1972, Vietti became a full professor at Washington University. In 1975, she received a large grant from the National Cancer Institute to study cancer in children. Her research uncovered the genetic basis of leukemia, new chemotherapy agents and also studied the long-term effects of chemotherapy on childhood cancer survivors. Vietti retired in 1998.
Vietti went to Rice University when she was seventeen and graduated in 1949. She then went on to Baylor College of Medicine for her medical degree, graduating in 1953. She did her residency and internship at St. Louis Children's Hospital. Vietti went to Wayne University College of Medicine in 1958 for specialist training in hematology. In 1961, she worked for six months as a visiting pediatrician at the Hacettepe Children's Hospital in Ankara. Also in 1961, she visited her sister in Vietnam at the leprosarium where Ardel worked. Vietti became an assistant professor of pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis also in 1961.
Teresa J. Vietti (November 5, 1927 – January 25, 2010) was an American physician. She is best known for her pioneering work and research in pediatric cancer. Her research discovered the genetics of leukemia, new chemotherapy agents and tracked the effects of chemotherapy on childhood cancer survivors. Vietti also wrote about her research and was an editor of the Journal of Pediatric Hematology and a co-editor of Clinical Pediatric Oncology. According to Washington University in St. Louis, she was known as "the mother of pediatric cancer therapy."
