Mary Ellen Wohl

Mary Ellen Beck Wohl (June 12, 1932 - October 9, 2009) was Chief of the Division of Respiratory Diseases at Children's Hospital Boston (a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School), and served as Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center until 2002. Since the 1962, when she first joined the staff at Children's Hospital, Wohl specialized in the respiratory diseases of children. She was also a leader in the field of clinical research on cystic fibrosis. She developed a number of techniques to evaluate the function of the lungs in young children and is the author of many research papers in this field.