Elisabeth Larsson

Larsson was one of the first women to achieve a three-year residency in obstetrics and gynecology, which she served at the Los Angeles County General Hospital. After her residency, in 1935, she joined the faculty of Loma Linda and began practicing in private practice. She also earned board certification in surgery and obstetrics/gynecology. She left her professorship and became professor emerita in 1963, at the age of 68, though she practiced as a physician until the age of 75, at which point she estimated she had delivered 16,000 babies. She noted that at her final delivery, she had also delivered the mother, father, and anesthesiologist.^[1]

Larsson was a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists from 1952 to 1963, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, an honorary fellow of the Swedish Medical Society in 1958, and a fellow of the Swedish Gynecological Society in 1965.^[1]