Anne G. Osborn

Anne G. Osborne (born 1943), also known as Anne Osborne Poelman, is an American physician who works at the University of Utah, the widow of Ronald E. Poelman and the author of a book about how to apply LDS theology to life. Her textbook on neuroradiology is a definitive work on the subject. Her work Diagnostic Cerebral Angiography is also considered a definitive work. She also wrote Osborn's Brain: Imaging, Pathology and Anatomy. She holds the William H. and Patricia W. Child Presidential Endowed Chair in Radiology at the University of Utah Medical Center.

Biography

Osborne earned her M.D. at Stanford University. There are a total of ten medical textbooks with Osborne as at least one of the credited authors. In 1977 the Ensign included an article by Osborne about being a single woman and also a member of a church that places marriage and family in order of priority just under discipleship to Jesus Christ.[1] In 1989 to 1990 she worked at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

In 1982 she married Ronald E. Poelman.[2]

For a year, covering parts of 1988 and 1989, Osborn served as president of the American Society of Neuroradiology.[3] In 1989 Osborn was the recipient of the Grubbe Memorial Award from the Chicago Radiological Society.[4]

In 1995 Osborn wrote The Simeon Solution which was her autobiography. Osborne was the first female president of the American Society of Neuroradiology.[5] Osborne was interviewed for the 2007 PBS documentary The Mormons.[6] She has served on the general board of the Sunday School and Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[1]

In 1995 Osborn wrote an autobiography entitled The Simeon Solution.[7] In 1997 her book The Amulek Alternative: Exercising Agency in a World of Choice was published.[8]

In 2013 Osborn won in the physician category for her book Osborn's Brain the first place award from the American Medical Writers Association.[9]

Works

Diagnostic Imaging: Brain that Osborn wrote with Karen L Salzman, is one of 7 books listed under the heading "fundamentals" that the American Association of Neurological Surgeons says that medical students and residents interested in a career in neurosurgery should review.[10]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Anne G. Osborn, "The Ecstasy of the Agony: How to Be Single and Sane at the Same Time", Ensign, March 1977.
  2. ↑ Deseret News obituary for Poelman, Nov. 22, 2011
  3. ↑ listing of past presidents of the American Society of Neuroradiology
  4. ↑ list of Grubbe Memorial Award winners
  5. ↑ reviewing this list would seem to indicate this based on the first names, but it does not give the sex of the people involved, so does not actually show she was first remale president
  6. ↑ "Why I Am A Mormon" theme by PBS
  7. ↑ Sep. 3, 1995 Deseret News article
  8. ↑ Mormon Literature Database listing for Osborn
  9. ↑ American Medical Writers Association listing of past winners
  10. ↑ American Association of Neurological Surgeons recommendations on what books to review if interested in Neurosurgery

Sources

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