Helen Iglauer Glueck was a physician known for her research in blood chemistry that linked bleeding disorders in newborns with lack of Vitamin K in breast milk.

Dr. Glueck graduated from Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

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 in 1925. She obtained her BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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 and her MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

She directed the University of Cincinnati Student Health Services (1945-1959) and then became Director of the Coagulation Laboratory at the University.

Honors

• 1979 YWCA Career Woman of the Year
• 1985 Hebrew Union College
  Hebrew Union College
  The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the oldest extant Jewish seminary in the Americas and the main seminary for training rabbis, cantors, educators and communal workers in Reform Judaism.HUC-JIR has campuses in Cincinnati, New York, Los Angeles and Jerusalem.The Jerusalem...
  
  Founders Medal
• 1985 University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Daniel Drake Award
• 1993 named a "Great Living Cincinnatian" by the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce