Education
Harvard Medical School. Radcliffe College.
Harvard Medical School. Radcliffe College.
Albright is also a graduate of Harvard Medical School. In 2015 she was inducted into the National Women"s Hall of Fame. At age 11 Albright suffered an attack of polio.
Skating was her therapy to regain muscle strength.
In 1956, while training for the Olympics, Albright fell due to a rut in the ice and cut her right ankle joint to the bone with her left skate. The cut was stitched by her father, a surgeon.
A graduate of The Winsor School in Boston, Albright entered Radcliffe College in 1953 as a pre-medical student, and focused on completing her education after the 1956 Olympics. She graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1961, went on to become a surgeon, and she practiced for 23 years, continuing as a faculty member and lecturer at Harvard Medical School.
Foreign a while she chaired the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.
As a director, she has served both not-for-profits such as The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and for-profit enterprises such as West Pharmaceutical Services, Incorporated., and State Street Bank and Trust Company. She is currently the Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Collaborative Initiatives.
Albright retired from competitive skating after 1956 but has maintained a prominent role in the figure skating profession as a member of the Executive Committee of the United States. Olympic Committee.