She played a vital role in many women's organizations and clubs, as well as contributed to many medical social movements in Maryland and Baltimore.
The medical practice did not flourish,[4] but the pair decided to stay in Baltimore anyway and eventually took over the Evening Dispensary for Working Women and Children.
During this time, they were in close vicinity to Johns Hopkins Hospital, and had many opportunities to interact, learn, and connect with other doctors, attend lectures, and join groups and organizations.
While employed at the school, she was chosen to help develop and direct, the Bureau of Child Welfare in the city health department in Baltimore, serving as its head until 1924.
[1] She was also the first chairman of the obstetrics section in the National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and worked on the Maryland Tuberculosis Commission.