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e fields of anesthesiology and teratology, and introduced obstetrical considerations to the established field of neonatology. To the public, however, she is best known as the inventor of the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of newborn children immediately after birth. Being the youngest of three children, Apgar was born and raised in Westfield, New Jersey to a musical family. By the time she graduated from high school,Virginia Apgar was determined to be a doctor. She may have been inspired by her father's scientific hobbies, or by her eldest brother's early death from tuberculosis, and another brother's chronic childhood illness. With the help of several scholarships, she attended Mt. Holyoke College, performing in the college orchestra as a gifted violinist and graduating with a major in zoology in 1929. In 1933, she graduated fourth in her class from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She was discouraged by Dr. Allen Whipple, the chairman of surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, from continuing her career as a surgeon because he had seen many women attempt to be successful surgeons and ultimately fail. He instead encouraged her to practice anesthesiology because he felt that advancements in anesthesia were needed to further advance surgery and felt that she had the "energy and ability" to make a significant contribution. Deciding to continue her career in anesthesiology, she had taken various trainings to be an anesthesiologist. Apgar realized that the period just after a baby is born is an extremely important time for many infants. At the time babies were not usually evaluated carefully at birth by doctors, who were often more concerned with the health of the mother. Because of this lack of an organized examination, many life-threatening conditions were not identified in infants. To provide a quick and efficient way to decide which babies required special care, Apgar created a five-part test that scored a child's heart rate, respiration , muscle tone, color, and reflexes. The test, known as the Apgar Newborn Scoring System, was to be performed one minute after birth. This later expanded to five and ten minutes as well. Developed in 1949, Apgar's system eventually became a worldwide standard among physicians for determining a child's chance of survival and rate of development. During her lifetime Apgar made significant contributions to science not only in the laboratory, but also in the classroom. She instructed hundreds of doctors and left a lasting mark on the field of neonatal care. Apgar received a number of awards recognizing her role in medicine. Read more details about Dr. Virginia Apgar at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Apgar See the Google Doodle for the Dr Virginia Apgar’s 109th Birthday at https://www.google.com/doodles/dr-virginia-apgars-109th-birthday ***************************************** See Today's Deals/Offers/Discounts/Coupons at Amazon https://amzn.to/2I4Rz0U ***************************************** Amazon Influencer Page: https://www.amazon.com/shop/rajamanickamantonimuthu Twitter: https://twitter.com/rajamanickam_a LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qualitypoint/ ******************************************