Hilda Gardner
Hilda Gardner was a pioneer of laboratory medicine in Australia, with a particular interest in infections and infectious diseases.
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Ethel Jessie Bowe
Australian army matron-in-chief, army nurse and nurse educator.
Dr Doris Lyne Officer
Doris Officer was Clinical Assistant in Children’s Outpatients, Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne 1930-1947 and Medical Officer, Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria from 1941.
Dr Hilda Kincaid
Hilda Kincaid was medical officer (child welfare) for the Melbourne City Council from 1927 until her retirement in 1952
Edna Shaw
Edna Shaw was a Matron at the Women’s Hospital in Crown Street Sydney from 1936 to 1952.
Kudzai Kanhutu
Zimbabwean doctor and associate professor Kudzai Kanhutu is a powerful advocate for health systems and gender equity in Australia.
Dr Cathleen Monaghan
Missionary Sister of St Columban and physician who worked in Hong Kong from 1949 until her death in 1985
Dr Catherine Hamlin
Catherine Hamlin and her husband pioneered work to assist and eliminate obstetric fistula in Ethiopia, and over six decades established the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital.
Ellen Gould
Ellen Gould was Matron and Superintendent of the training school of Sydney Hospital from 1891-1898 . In 1900 she was appointed Lady Superintendent with the newly formed Army Nursing Service.
Dorothy Durdin
Joan Durdin, author of They Became Nurses: A History of Nursing in South Australia, 1836-1980 (1991) and Eleven Thousand Nurses: A History of Nursing Education at the Royal Adelaide Hospital 1889-1993 (1999) is a nursing historian and as a nurse educator has contributed much to the advancement of nursing through the development of advanced education in the higher education sector.