Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian pharmacologist and physician (born 1914)

Frances Oldham Kelsey

Canadian-American physician and pharmacologist (1914–2015)

Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey was a Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician. As a reviewer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), she refused to authorize thalidomide for market because she had concerns about the lack of evidence regarding the drug's safety.…