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- Birth nameBernadine Patricia Healy
- Bernadine Healy was born on August 2, 1944 in New York City, New York, USA. She was married to Dr. Floyd D. Loop and Dr. Gregory B. Bulkley. She died on August 6, 2011 in Gates Mills, Ohio, USA.
- SpousesDr. Floyd D. Loop(1985 - August 6, 2011) (her death, 1 child)Dr. Gregory B. Bulkley (divorced, 1 child)
- She excelled in academics. She was the top student of her high school class at Hunter College High School. She then attended Vassar College and graduated summa cum laude with a major in chemistry and a minor in philosophy in 1965. She was one of only ten women out of 120 students in her Harvard Medical School class. In 1970, she graduated with her M.D. cum laude. She completed postgraduate work at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and was a member of the Hopkins faculty from 1976 to 1984.
- She was born in New York City and raised on Long Island. She is the second of four daughters born to Michael J. and Violet (nee McGrath), both second-generation Irish Americana.
- She is the health editor for U.S. News & World Report.
- She is a cardiologist, and a former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (1991-1993), the American Heart Association (1988-1989) and the American Red Cross (1999-2002).
- Former professor and Dean of the Ohio State University's College of Medicine and Public Health (1995-1999).
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