Frances "Fran" Krauskopf Conley (born August 12, 1940 in Palo Alto, California) is a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University.
She is the author of Walking Out on the Boys
(Ferrar, Straus and Giroux 1998), the story of her protest of misogyny
at the University hospital.Conley was born in 1940 to Konrad Bates Krauskopf and Kathryn McCune Krauskopf.
She was a crucial figure in the advancement of women in
American medicine.