Muriel Wolf

I am delighted to be a member of the Mosaic Board. I have always loved the theater, the opera, and the symphony. I have spent 50 plus years as a pediatrician and pediatric cardiologist  at Childrens Hospital, seeing patients, and teaching several thousand medical students, residents and fellows. I have been an advocate for women in medicine,  an advocate for children and families, and an advocate for our community in D.C. and on Capitol Hill. I am now emeritus associate professor of pediatrics of the George Washington University School of Medicine.  

I graduated from Yale Medical School, one of 5 women in a class of  80 students. I became an advocate for women in medicine, and by the late 1970’s, there were 45 women in a class. In the 1970s, I was one of the first two women elected to the board of governors of the Yale Alumni Association   Then in the 1990’s, I was the first woman president  in 100 years of the Alumni Association of Yale Medical School. Also in the 1990’s I was the first woman elected in 150 years as president of the Yale Club of Washington, D,C, and then the 2nd woman president of the D.C. Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Working with a graduate nurse, we started one of the first two training programs for nurse practitioners in the United States, graduating several dozen students. and now that program is incorporated into the Catholic University School of Nursing.  

I have been an expert in lead poisoning, and now co-chairperson of the advisory committee to the Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Division of the Department of Energy and the Environment of the District of Columbia.  Another area of expertise is poisonous snake bites; we saved the life of the adolescent who was envenomated by a deadly Gaboon viper which he stole from the National Zoo.  

In the community I have been active in programs addressing historic district issues and I am a member of the Restoration Society of the District of Columbia, and as a member of the Capitol Hill Village, which supports senior citizens remaining in their homes, I have testified for creating more housing for senior citizens who wish to remain on Capitol Hill.  

My husband, Richard Wolf, now deceased, was one of the major lawyers responsible for historic district legislation, and Capitol Hill became the 2nd historic district in D.C. after Georgetown. One daughter is a pediatric gastroenterologist at Boston Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the other daughter has MBA and will reenter the workforce when her second daughter goes off to college.