Local Luminaries: Celebrating Leaders in Health Sciences
Local Luminaries: Celebrating Leaders in Health Sciences
The Local Luminaries series at The Ohio State University honors a wide range of health sciences leaders who left lasting legacies throughout the local medical community and around the world.
These individuals dedicated their careers to research breakthroughs, improving patient care and pushing boundaries further than was ever thought possible. Click below to learn more about each Local Luminary and get further reading materials provided by the Medical Heritage Center. Additional images for each Local Luminary belong to the Medical Heritage Center and University Libraries archives.
Our Medical Visuals team of medical illustrators also hand-drew a series of portraits for the HSL's Local Luminaries Coloring Book. The individuals featured in the coloring book were thoughtfully selected by the library’s Medical Heritage Center (MHC) curators to highlight the MHC’s vast medical history collections and archives.
Bertha Bouroncle
The first to identify a rare form of leukemia.
(1919 – 2013)
Clotilde Bowen
The first Black woman physician in the United State Army.
(1913 – 2011)
Charles Doan
A leader of The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
(1896 – 1990)
Richard Meiling
A leader who grew the practice and footprint of medicine.
(1908 – 1984)
Ernest Johnson
A committed advocate for the physically disabled.
(1924 – 2014)
Manuel Tzagournis
The face of Ohio State Medicine in the 1980s and 1990s.
(1934 – )