[1] In 1944, Hellebrandt agreed to head the newly created Baruch Center for Physical Medicine at the VCU Medical College of Virginia.
[1] In 1951, she returned to Chicago to become a professor and chair of physical medicine at the University of Illinois, but her declining health forced her to retire, for the first time, in 1955.
[1] She served of the Board of Trustees for the Easter Seals Research Foundation, and received the Anderson Award from the American Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.
The Women's Centennial Congress organized by Carrie Chapman Catt was held in New York City in November 25–27, 1940, to celebrate a century of female progress.
"[4] The Caroline tum Suden/Frances A. Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Awards, are given by the American Physiological Society to graduate students or post-doctoral fellows who are the first author of an abstract submitted to its Experimental Biology meeting.