Lucy Balian Rorke-Adams

Lucy Balian Rorke-Adams
Born1929 (age 9596)
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materMD, University of Minnesota Medical School (1957)

BS, Medicine, University of Minnesota (1955)
MA, Psychology, University of Minnesota (1952)

BA, Psychology, University of Minnesota (1951)
Scientific career
FieldsPediatric neuropathology
InstitutionsChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia General Hospital, University of Pennsylvania

Lucy Balian Rorke-Adams (born 1929) is an American pediatric neuropathologist who was president of the American Association of Neuropathologists in 1982. She spent 50 years at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP, 1965–2015). She was the first and only female president of Philadelphia General Hospital (PGH, 1973–1977) and president of the PGH medical staff (1973–1975). She also served as president of the medical staff at CHOP (1986-1988) and as acting chair of pathology at CHOP (1995–2001). She was a professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania beginning in 1970, becoming clinical professor of pathology as of 1979.