Caro Luhrs, MD

Dr. Caro Elise Luhrs is a graduate of Swarthmore College and one of seven women who graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1960. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. While in her twenties, Dr. Luhrs became the first woman on the full-time Internal Medicine faculty at Georgetown University Medical School and served as the Director of the Hematology Laboratories and Blood Bank. She was a White House Fellow for five years to three Secretaries of Agriculture, becoming one of the two highest ranking women in the department and receiving the Distinguished Service Medal. As well, Dr. Luhrs served for four years as Director of Booz Allen Hamilton’s Washington D.C. Health and Medical Division, then re-trained and certified in clinical medicine, and continued practicing as a general internist with a management consulting firm on the side. For ten years, she served served as Corporate Medical Director of a nationwide ambulatory health care company. Since retiring, Dr. Luhrs does non-profit work related to lung disease and is developing a Center for Innovation and Leadership at Swarthmore College.