Dr Fiona Wood
Australian plastic surgeon whose knowledge of treating burns became prominent immediately after the Bali bombings in 2002.
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Emmie Russell
Emmie Russell was an early practitioner in Australia of orthoptics, the study of eye movement and the treatment of vision disorders.
Ellen Clark
Ellen Clark was a naturalist who specialised in Australia’s crustacea.
Dr Almah J Frisby
Early 1900s American physician
Ina Watson
Ina Watson worked professionally as Publicity Officer for the Fisheries and Wildlife Department in Victoria, but all her spare time was devoted to birds. She was an excellent field observer and photographer who contributed both photographs and text to a number of nature journals and published natural history stories for children including Silvertail: The Story of a Lyrebird (1946).
Eva Shipton
Eva Adeline Shipton was the founder of what has become known as Sydney Diagnostic Services, when she commenced her private pathology practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney in 1928.
Dorothy Forsaith
Dorothy Frances Forsaith was Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Western Australia from 1924 to 1927. In 1936 she was appointed Honorary Director, then Administrator of the Australian Red Cross’s Blood Transfusion Service.
Gertrude Urquhart Grogan
Gertrude Grogan was a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), New South Wales, during the Second World War.
Dr Rita Stang
Rita Stang was medical officer of schools in the Western Australian Public Health Department from 1925, and supervisor of infant health in Western Australia from 1929, until her retirement in 1955. She worked to improve hygiene and children’s diets and put many measures into place to assist families in isolated areas with mothercraft.
Dr Fauriel Lockett
Fauriel Lockett, the first female professor at the University of Western Australia, was Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology 1963-1972.