A portrait photo of Frances A. Hellebrandt, M.D. Frances A. Hellebrandt was born on August 26, 1901, in Chicago, Illinois. In 1929, she received her BS in Physical Education and a medical degree from the University of Wisconsin. Hellebrandt then earned several Anatomy and Physiology faculty positions at the university before she left the United States to study at the Clinic for Sportsmen at Charles University from 1937–1938 in Prague. By 1943, she returned to the U.S. and was named chair of the University of Wisconsin's physical therapy program. In 1944, Hellebrandt agreed to head the newly created Baruch Center for Physical Medicine at the VCU Medical College of Virginia. She was able to establish a new degree program in physical medicine, making the Center the "first such facility in the South."
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