Jean Emily Henley

Jean Emily Henley ( born December 3, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois; † August 19, 1994 in Shelburne Vermont) was an anesthetist.

She was the only child of Eugene Henry Heller, from Hungary and Helen Esther Goodman of Germany, who emigrated to the United States. There, the father changed the name to Henley.

After Jean Henley had received her Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College and Barnard College, she went to study sculpture in the early 1930s to Paris. Then she studied in New York Medicine and graduated in 1940 graduated from the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons from. After completion of training in internal medicine, she joined in 1944 volunteered for the army. On 1 March 1947, she began her training as an anesthetist at the Columbia -Presbyterian Medical Center, where she graduated in 1949. After that, she went to Switzerland and took there an invitation from Maria Daelen from Wiesbaden to come to Germany. Originally they wanted to visit Germany for a few days, ( her visa was valid only for ten days ), but it remained for two years as a guest doctor in Giessen, Frankfurt, Marburg, Wiesbaden, Tübingen, Berlin, Heidenheim, Hamburg and Heidelberg. She used this anesthetic machines in the U.S. Army but also developed their own anesthesia machines. In 1950 she wrote the first modern anesthesia textbook in Germany after 1945: "Introduction to the practice of modern anesthesia " appeared in de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin. Had this textbook to 1991 thirteen editions and a total circulation of more than 15 000 copies. She has developed standards that are still in anesthesiology important. Upon her return to the United States, she was chief physician and associate professor at the Francis Delafield Hospital in New York. These positions she held until her retirement in 1972. In 1981 she was elected an honorary member of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine ( DGAI ) appointed. She died on August 19, 1994 in Shelburne, Vermont.