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Six months behind, Seibert found herself the only female in that class. She planned to become a pediatrician, but after the wreck she realized she needed to change course, because she couldn’t walk for long periods of time. She spent some time in radiology and set her sights on becoming a pediatric radiologist.

Joanna and Robert met while working in the night obstetrics department. She says the hours were filled with “long stretches of nothing to do and seconds of extreme terror.” The couple had plenty of time to talk. They married after both completed their medical internships. At that time, all male physicians were required to enter the military under the Berry Plan. Their first child, also named Robert, was born while Joanna’s husband was in Vietnam.

After her son was born, Seibert started her residency in radiology. In 1972, the Seiberts moved to Iowa and he was accepted into the University of Iowa’s ear, nose and throat program while she finished her pediatric radiology training and accepted a position as head of the pediatric radiology department.

Both of the Seiberts were recruited by Arkansas Children’s Hospital and decided to move their growing family to the Natural State in 1976. Her in-laws lived in Memphis and were available to help with their three children — sons Robert and John, and daughter Joanna, who inherited her mother’s name.

“This was when Arkansas Children’s Hospital was becoming a pediatric hospital. Before, it had just been a hospital for polio victims and children with disabilities,” Seibert says. “It was exciting to be right on the ground floor of a developing children’s hospital.”

During her almost 40-year career at Children’s Hospital, Seibert pioneered research on the utilization of Doppler sonography to evaluate cerebral blood flow in children with sickle cell anemia to predict the risk of stroke.

She is also the author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers on pediatric radiology, several textbooks and numerous scientific book chapters. Every other year, Children’s Hospital gives the Joanna and Robert Seibert Award to a physician who embodies the teamwork of his or her practice.

“Dr. Joanna Seibert is one of those giants in medicine who broke the glass ceiling here in Arkansas. As the state’s first pediatric radiologist, she led with a quiet compassion, rooted in her deeply held spirituality. She is a Renaissance woman of thought, work, art, spirituality and life. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to follow her example,” says Marcy Doderer, president and chief executive officer of Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

Her resume is filled with a long list of honors — Worthen Arkansas Woman of Distinction in 1992; Top 100 Women in Arkansas by Arkansas Business, 1996-98; Arkansas Women’s Hall of Fame in

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