Lula Woods Garst
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Lula Woods Garst | |
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 Lula Woods Garst, from a 1924 yearbook | |
| Born | January 5, 1897 Natural Bridge, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | March 19, 1974 (aged 77) Roanoke, Virginia, U.S. |
| Occupation | Physician |
Lula Woods Garst (January 5, 1897 – March 19, 1974) was an American physician. She was on the staff of the Catawba Sanatorium in Virginia for over forty years, treating tuberculosis patients from 1926 to 1967.[1]
Garst was born in Natural Bridge, Virginia, the daughter of Thomas Dillard Garst and Mary Susan Lewis Garst.[2] She graduated from Westhampton College in 1918.[3][4] In 1924, she earned her medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia,[5] where she was in the school's first cohort of female medical students,[6] and a founding member of the college's chapter of Alpha Epsilon Iota, along with Mary Baughman and Gladys Smithwick.[7] In 1931 she took leave to study gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[8]
Career
After college, Garst was employed as a bacteriologist for the City of Richmond.[9] Garst completed an internship at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. Beginning in 1926,[10] she served on the staff of the Catawba Sanatorium for Tuberculosis for over forty years. She also wrote a history of the sanatorium, Catawba Sanatorium golden anniversary: Background history and highlights, 1909-1959.[11] She retired from Catawba Sanatorium in 1967.[12][1]