Education
She was raised in Wichita, Kansas and graduated from Kapaun Mountain. Carmel High School in 1977.
She was raised in Wichita, Kansas and graduated from Kapaun Mountain. Carmel High School in 1977.
She was best known as an effective psychiatrist and has become a local symbol for hope in the fight against Breast Cancer. In May 2008 her old psychiatric clinic was renamed in her honor as a tribute to her legacy and impact in the Southern Arizona treatment of Psychiatry. lieutenant was the first time such a building was named after an employee in Tucson.
She became a local icon in Tucson in the fight against breast cancer, which claimed her own life.
She was the first woman psychiatrist to have a building name after her honor as a result of her legacy. More than $10,000 has been donated to local charities in her memory.
She was featured in the Life Stories section of the Arizona Daily Star on May 10, 2008
Mary Ann Coady was born on Christmas Day, 1959 in Homestead Air Force Base near Miami, Florida to Neil J. Coady and Dolores (née Breitenbach). She graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts in Human Biology with Distinction in 1982.
She had initially planned on studying to become a Nurse, but when she applied to nursing school her interviewers suggested that with her record she would be more suited for Medical School.
She switched her path of study to pre-medicine soon after. She went on to Medical School and completed medical school at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1986, and residency training in Adult Psychiatry in 1990. She was board certified in both Adult Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry.
She practiced psychiatry in Tucson from 1991 until June 2007 when she abruptly left work at Committee on Publication Ethics Community Services due to her rapidly deteriorating health.
At the age of 47, she died on September 26, 2007, peacefully at home, surrounded by her family, from breast cancer. She had been with Committee on Publication Ethics since May 2001.
Her battle with breast cancer enabled her to write her own obituary a week before she died. lieutenant was published in the Arizona Daily Star.
Her commitment was recognized on May 10, 2008 with the dedication of the Mary Ann Coady Weinand, Doctor of Medicine, Clinic on East Lakeside Parkway in Tucson.
The clinic, where Doctor Coady Weinand worked before succumbing to metastatic breast cancer last year, provides services to adults with serious and general mental illness and substance abuse issues. "She brought a unique perspective in regard to the seriously mentally ill in our community", said Committee on Publication Ethics medical director Doctor Adam Opbroek. Mary Ann Coady Weinand Clinic Committee on Publication Ethics Case Management Services at Weinand Clinic provides.
Quotations: "She brought a unique perspective in regard to the seriously mentally ill in our community".
In college she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.