[1] Her older brother (sometimes mistakenly referred to as her father) Henry F. Formad was a pathology professor on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, and served as Coroner's Physician in Philadelphia.
[3] Marie Formad graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1886,[4] with a thesis titled "Some Notes on Criminal Abortion".
[11] She served fourteen months, from January 1918 to March 1919, in a Women's Overseas Hospital (WOH) unit in France.
[12][13] She directed and performed surgery a 125-bed refugee hospital at Labouheyre,[14] supported by the National Woman Suffrage Association,[15] working alongside doctors Laura E. Hunt[16] and Mabel Seagrave.
[17] The hospital grew under Formad's direction, and served about 10,000 refugees during its existence;[18] two of the American nurses at Labouheyre, Winifred Warder and Eva Emmons, died from influenza there.