Albertina Sisulu
Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely referred to as the “Mother of the Nation”.
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Gwen Wilson
Gwen Wilson was the first woman to earn an Australian Postgraduate Diploma in Anaesthesia.
Gwen Burbidge
Australian matron, teacher, reformer, activist and advocate for nurses and nursing
Florinda Ogilvie
Florinda Ogilvie was a medical social worker and a Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney from 1943-1949. The University holds an archival collection of her personal records dating from 1937 to 1968.
Constance Amy Fall
During the Second World War she was Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Tasmania Line of Communication Area and matron-in-charge of the 1st Australian General Hospital, Australian Imperial Forces.
Dr Elizabeth White
Elizabeth White practised medicine chiefly as a bacteriologist to Queen Charlotte’s Hospital Research Laboratories, where she was involved in puerperal fever research using Prontosil treatment in the 1930s.
Dr Fiona Wood
Australian plastic surgeon whose knowledge of treating burns became prominent immediately after the Bali bombings in 2002.
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