Dr Vera Schectman
Vera Schectman (1890-1971) was from Odessa and emigrated to the United States, where she became a decorated doctor in Newark, New Jersey.
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Dr Sophia Presley
Sophia Presley (1834-1909) was an instructor of surgery, a director of the Camden Women’s club, and was a member of the Camden County Medical Society.
Arabella Wharton Griffith Barlow
Arabella W. Barlow (1824-1864) was a Civil War nurse from Somerville, New Jersey, serving in the Peninsula, Antietam, and Gettysburg campaigns.
Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley
Catherine Kaidyee Blaikley was a midwife who, during the mid-eighteenth century in Virginia, purportedly delivered as many as three thousand babies.
Dr Constance Stone
Dr Constance Stone was the first woman to be registered as a medical practitioner in Australia.
Clara Louise Maass
Nurse Clara Louise Maass (1876-1901) volunteered to participate in an immunization experiment against yellow fever in Cuba, but succumbed to the disease at the young age of 25.
Helen Kirkpatrick Watts
Deaf British suffragist
Abby Hopper Gibbons
1800s American philanthropist
Dr Dagmar Berne
Dr Dagmar Berne was the first woman to study medicine in Australia.
Dr Lisa I Iezzoni
In 1998, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni was the first woman to be appointed professor in the department of medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, MA.