Dora Lush
Dora Lush was a bacteriological research fellow at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Dora Isabel Baudinet
Nurse Dora Baudinet founded the Sunshine Association of Tasmania in 1938, an organisation dedicated to providing convalescent care to underprivileged and isolated children.
Dr Linny Kimly Phuong
Dr Linny Kimly Phuong is a respected paediatric infectious diseases physician, researcher, public health communicator, and community advocate.
Wilma Young
Wilma Young was an Australian World War II veteran, providing decades of community work with the RSL and war veterans.
Doris Bardsley
Doris Bardsley was a nurse and midwife who worked for nearly 40 years in the Queensland public service in Australia.
Diana Dyason
Diana Dyason was Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne 1965-1984 and Head of Department 1965-1974.
Joan Abbott
Joan Abbott was a nurse and midwife at hospitals in Brisbane and Canberra. She also served as a matron in the Middle East while enlisted by the Australian Army Nursing Service.
Leila Denmark
Leila Denmark was the oldest practicing pediatrician in the United States when she retired in 2001 at the age of 103. In seventy years of practice, Denmark rarely charged patients more than ten dollars for an office consultation, and it was not unusual for her to spend an hour counseling a new mother.
Nancy Harts Militia
The Nancy Harts militia, formed in LaGrange during the first weeks of the US Civil War (1861-65), was a female military unit organized by the wives of Confederate soldiers to protect the home front.
Elsie Inglis
Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.