Carola Eisenberg

Carola Eisenberg, MD, now retired, is the former Dean of Students of MIT (the first woman to hold that position at MIT), Dean of Students then at Harvard Medical School. She is now Professor Emeritus in the HMS Department of Social Medicine.

She is a native Argentinean and is a cofounder of Physicians for Human Rights and currently its Vice President and the Chair of its Asylum Committee. Her dissertation on "A Histological Study of Tay-Sachs Disease" was presented in 1944 for her medical degree at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. She is also a 1935 graduate of the School of Psychiatric Social Work in Hospicio De Las Mercedes, Argentina. After receioving her medical degree, she emigrated to the USA and became Fellow in Child Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland.

Throughout her career, she has consulted with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (1979), Swarthmore College (1984), Mental Health Division of the World Health Organization (1985, Committee on Human Rights and Medical Practice, American College of Physicians (1989-1993), National Institutes of Health (1992), Office of the Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services (1992), National Research Council of the National Academy of Science and The National Academy of Engineering (1992-1996), and the National Institutes of Health (1995-1998).

She is the wife of Leon Eisenberg, MD, Presley Professor of Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus in the Harvard Medical School.

Awards
Morani Renaissance Woman Award, Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine, Drexel Medical School, 2002. Lifetime Achievement Award, Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, 2005. Human Rights Award, American Psychiatric Association, 2005.