Jean Emily Henley

Jean Emily Henley (1910 in Chicago, Illinois - August 19 1994 in Vermont) was an anesthesiologist. She was the child of Eugene and Esther Heller, who emigrated from Germany and Hungary respectively into the United States. The father changed the name into Henley.

She graduated 1940 at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and began on March 1, 1947 her residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, that she completed 1949. She is less known in her home country than in Germany. She wrote in 1950 in Germany the first anesthesia textbook after World War II: Einführung in die Praxis der modernen Inhalationsnarkose. de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin. Its edition had a circulation of more than 15 000. In 1981 she became a honorary member of the Germany Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive care Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin, DGAI).