Helen Aird Dickie, MD — internal medicine (pulmonology)
Courtesy University of Wisconsin Archives, Madison
Friends and colleagues termed Dr. Helen Aird Dickie (1913–1988) “a giant in Wisconsin medicine.” She was a pioneer in the detection and treatment of tuberculosis, and identified a disease among Wisconsin farmers, which she called “farmer’s lung,” that involves a hypersensitivity pneumonitis caused by exposure to fermented, moldy hay. She also devised a means for its prevention. Spending most of her career in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, she earned national renown for her work on pulmonary disorders.
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