Jane F. Desforges (1921 – September 7, 2013) was an American hematologist and professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.
She met her husband Gerald Desforges (who would later become a thoracic surgeon) at medical school, and married him in 1948.
After a year in Salt Lake City, she returned to Boston City Hospital, where she would remain for the next 25 years in a variety of roles including the director of laboratories and physician-in-charge of the Tufts University hematology laboratory.
[2] She became a professor of medicine at Tufts in 1972,[3] and during her tenure she received the medical school's Outstanding Teacher Award for thirteen years in a row.
[3] In 2007, the Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teacher Award was named in her honor by the American College of Physicians in 2007.