Helena Gilder, MD Papers

Helena Gilder, MD was born in New York City on November 11, 1913. She received an A. B. from Vassar College in 1935 and a MD from Cornell University Medical College in 1940. After graduation, she was an intern at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, NY and a resident at Rockefeller Institute Hospital. In addition, Gilder had three research fellowships at Rockefeller Institute. She joined the faculty of Cornell University Medical College as a research associate in biochemistry in 1946 and became assistant professor of biochemistry in 1952. In 1949 in the Department of Surgery Gilder was appointed research associate of biochemistry in surgery and rose to associate professor of surgery (biochemistry) in 1964. She was also a career scientist at the Health Research Council of the City of New York from 1961-1967. At New York Hospital, she was a research clinical affiliate in the Department of Surgery from 1949-1980. She retired in 1980, but she continued to be an adjunct associate professor in the Departments of Surgery, Biochemistry, and Pediatrics.

Gilder's entire career was spent as a researcher studying the physiological and metabolic consequences of different disease states. Her research in the Department of Surgery focused on analyzing and decreasing the physiological and metabolic complications of surgery or injury.

She was active in the Women Medical Association of New York and served as its president from 1978-1980.

Dr. Gilder married A. Amasa Miller in 1948 and they had five children. She died on April 13, 2001.