Bertha Shamer

Baltimore, Maryland
Father Samuel Fletcher Tapman
Mother Mary Pahymer
Spouse Maurice E. Shamer, MD
Children

Miriam S. Daly

Margaret S. Peterson Quigley

David Howard Shamer

Siblings

Walter Tapman

Samuel Tapman, Jr. 

Howard Tapman

Education

Eastern High School, Baltimore, MD

Women's Medical College, Baltimore, MD 1906

Employment

Worked in the Pharmacy of Harriet Lane Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital 1906 to 1908 Baltimore City Juvenile Court - did physical examinations on orphans and juvenile delinquents who went through the court 1907 to 1912 Private practice of general medicine, mostly women and children. Offices on Greenmount Avenue and 3300 West North Avenue in Baltimore.

Affiliations Charter member of the Washington-Baltimore Branch of American Women's Medical Association
Interests and Hobbies Obstetrics and gynecology
Societal Contributions

Practiced medicine in Baltimore when women physicians were rare. Delivered babies at home and in Baltimore hospitals.