[2] She attended Radcliffe College before transferring to Tufts University Medical School, where she graduated third in her class in the year 1923.

[3] She joined the practice of Joslin the following year in 1924 and was immediately assigned to the challenging task of caring for children with diabetes.

In 1949, she introduced the White Classification of Diabetic Pregnancies, which classified patients according to their level of risk and tailored their treatment protocol accordingly.

Levels of risk were determined by age at onset, duration, presence of atherosclerotic vascular disease and renal complications.

This classification was widely adopted and allowed doctors to partially predict the course of a woman with diabetes during pregnancy and the chances of newborn survival.