Jane Walker Garfield

Jane Walker Garfield (1929-2020) was an American public health physician.
Family
Jane Harrison Walker was born to Elizabeth Harrison Walker and James Blaine Walker in 1929. She had one older sibling, Benjamin Harrison Walker. Her maternal grandfather was President Benjamin Harrison, who was, himself, descended from U.S. President William Henry Harrison as well as Benjamin Harrison V, a founding father who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Early and Personal Life
Jane Walker grew up in New York City, where she graduated from the Chapin School in 1947. She then graduated from Bryn Mawr College and Cornell Medical School, where she was one of two women in the graduating class of 1955.
In 1961, Walker married Newell Garfield, who was also the grandson of a president (James Garfield). In addition to the four children that her husband brought to the marriage, the two of them had their own child, Eliza Garfield.
Professional Life
Garfield completed a medicine internship at New York University, followed by a residency in pediatrics (1956-60), also at NYU.
Garfield directed the pulmonary unit at Bellevue Hospital in the 1960's and early 1970's, where she was involved in research trials on the first effective medication against tuberculosis (Isoniazid). She published papers in the 1970's, for example, on rifampin-induced methadone withdrawal (New England Journal of Medicine, May 1976); a prospective study of Isoniazid's induction of anti-nuclear antibodies (Annals of Internal Medicine, May 1978); and--as a solo author--the core curriculum for lung cancer for physicians in training (Postgraduate Medicine, Feb 1978)
Garfield then went to work for Mobil Oil, where she directed their international medicine department.
In 1983, the Garfields sailed to the Bahamas, where they ran three island medical clinics. "Dr. Jane" would make rounds by boat to her clinics in Elbow Cay, Man-O-War Cay and Great Guana Cay.
A decade later, they moved to Blue Hill, Maine, where they bought MedNow Clinic in Ellsworth. After 20 years of directing that clinic, Garfield retired and initiated the development of the Peninsula Free Clinic of Blue Hill; for the creation of that free clinic, Garfield won Blue Hill's 2016 Halcyon Grange Community Citizen of the Year Award.

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