Professor Mary Jaylene Berg
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"Dr.
Mary Berg is the acknowledged leader in fostering the
important role of women in pharmacy."
—Dr. Adrianne Bendich, 1997 |
Professor
Mary Jaylene Berg of Iowa City is a worldwide leader in fostering
the role of women in pharmacy and in the improvement of Women's
health. In 1995, she became the first female promoted to professor
in the College of Pharmacy at The University of Iowa since its
founding in 1885. Berg has led international efforts to bring
together women pharmacists in order to assure the inclusion of
gender-related health issues in pharmacy curricula. Nationally,
she has served as a charter member on the advisory committee
that reviews the research strategy of the National Institutes
of Health's Office of Research on Women's Health and presently
serves on the board of directors of the Society for the Advancement
of Women's Health Research. Berg's own research involves women
with epilepsy who want to have a family. The multidisciplinary
research team that she coordinates studies the potential for
epileptic women to safely use folic acid-containing multivitamins
to reduce the risk of adverse birth outcomes while they are taking
anti-folate drugs to control seizures. Berg is the coeditor of
four books, International Leadership Symposium: The Role of Women
in Pharmacy (1990), Women - A Force in Pharmacy (1992), Gender-Related
Health Issues: An International Perspective (1996), and Global
Visions of Women Pharmacists (1998), and the author of 50 journal
articles--almost all of which relate to Women's health. In 1992,
she served as a Delegate to the 45th World Health Assembly in
Geneva, Switzerland. A graduate of North Dakota State University
and the University of Kentucky and a post-doctoral fellow at
the State University of New York at Buffalo, Berg has been included
in Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, The World
Who's Who of Women, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in the
Midwest, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. Berg was born
in 1950 in Fargo, North Dakota. Berg was inducted into the Iowa
Women's Hall of Fame in 1999.
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