Carol Anastasia Warfield is an American anesthesiologist and professor at Harvard Medical School specializing in pain management.
A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Warfield has served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School since 1978.
At the time of her appointment, she was one of only 13 women holding endowed professorships at Harvard Medical School.
[2] In 2008, Warfield filed a lawsuit against Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, former Beth Israel CEO Paul F. Levy, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, and Josef E. Fischer alleging gender-based discrimination, retaliation, and defamation in connection with Beth Israel's decision to terminate Warfield's appointment in 2007.
While the defendants admitted no wrongdoing, under the terms of the settlement Beth Israel Deaconess paid Warfield $7 million, named the hospital’s pain clinic in her honor, and agreed to sponsor an annual lecture series on women’s health and the academic contributions of women in surgery.