While based at Vanderbilt University, she established one of the first neonatal ICUs and discovered a treatment for an often-fatal lung condition in newborns.
Mildred T. Stahlman, a physician and scientist who was a towering figure in providing medical care for premature babies and ailing newborns, developing a treatment for an often-fatal lung condition and establishing one of the country’s first neonatal intensive care units, died June 29 at her home in Brentwood, Tenn. She was 101.Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, where Dr. Stahlman studied, taught and conducted research for decades. No cause was cited.
In October 1961, the daughter of a Vanderbilt medical student was born two months premature and was severely affected by hyaline membrane disease. The girl’s parents agreed to experimental treatment with Dr. Stahlman, who pulled the iron lung out of storage in the basement. She slept on a folding bed nearby as she monitored the baby girl’s efforts to breathe on her own.. “On the fifth day, we managed to get her weaned off.
. “She founded the field of neonatology, pioneering and permanently integrating the principles of science and bedside care for prematurely born babies. Her discoveries have been instrumental in shaping the field for the past 60-plus years.”In the early 1970s, Dr. Stahlman recognized that many babies died before they could get to hospitals. She led an effort to devise a system that would provide transportation for seriously ill infants.
In addition to her research, her clinical work and her leadership of the neonatal ICU, Dr. Stahlman was a professor of pediatrics and other specialties at Vanderbilt’s medical school. Barely 5 feet tall, with her hair worn in a bun, she was a formidable — even feared — presence among students and interns.“She was terrifying,” Rush, who trained under Dr. Stahlman, said in 2022.
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