When Lincoln and her brother were infants in the 1950s, she took them on house calls. "She was a leader before the time women served in leadership roles."Ĭraig's daughter, Libby Lincoln of Plymouth, said she managed to attend nearly all their student events. "She spoke up, never hesitated to give her opinion," he said. Louis Park Medical Center, worked with Craig at Methodist. Dick Woellner, a retired internist at the old St. "She had a real feeling of commitment to her patients, to the hospital and to the community that she worked in," said Dresser, who added that Craig was the first medical director of the Eating Disorders Foundation at the hospital.ĭr. In 1989, the university gave her its Distinguished Service Award.Įarl Dresser of Eden Prairie, retired president of Methodist Hospital, recalled that at the end of her medical career, she was seeing the grandchildren of her early patients. "Peggy was never reticent to give a candid opinion, but her behavior was always statesmanlike." "She had a splendid capacity to synthesize a lot of information and come to a good decision," Neel said. Bryan Neel of Rochester, a former regent and retired Mayo Clinic surgeon.
Through it all, Craig was an "astute" and "compassionate" leader, said Dr. Louis Park's Methodist Hospital, in the late 1970s president of the Minnesota Medical Association, in 1986-87, and CEO of the university's Alumni Association, in 1977.ĭuring her career, she helped lead a score of community, university and medical groups, notably serving as a University of Minnesota regent from 1987 to 1993.Īs a regent, she considered and offered policy direction when the university hired Nils Hasselmo, when the ALG transplant drug was sold for profit in violation of the law and when some argued that ROTC should not be offered at the university given the military's policy on gay and lesbian service members. Louis Park that she began in 1949.īut she was the first woman to be president of the medical staff at St. "I wasn't carrying any Holy Grail, or searching for it," said Craig, who practiced until 1986 and had added an Eden Prairie office to the one in St. 14, 2001, Star Tribune article, Craig scoffed at the idea that she was a pioneer. She was one of three women in a sea of about 200 men in the class of 1945 at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine.īut in a Jan. Louis Park.Ĭraig, who recently lived in Edina, was 86.
Louis Park pediatrician, a leader at Methodist Hospital and a former University of Minnesota regent, died Jan. The longtime Minnetonka resident, who was a former St.
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Elizabeth (Peggy) Craig was a woman of firsts in her professional and civic life.
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