Ellen McKenna
Irish Sister of Mercy, American civil war nurse and teacher
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Emily MacManus
20th century matron of Guy’s Hospital, London
Dr Ellen S Baker
American astronaut and medical doctor
Kate Rubins
American astronaut and medical researcher
Sara Hampson
One of the first members trained in the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas’s Hospital, London (opened 1860), and worked there before being selected from sixty-six applicants as the first lady superintendent (1891–6) of the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin.
Arlyne Simon
American biomedical engineer, patent-holding inventor, author, and entrepreneur
Dr Norma Spielman Wohl
American psychologist and medical doctor who researched cults
Dr Beverley Taylor
Beverley Taylor’s research interests involve qualitative approaches to explore the human condition, as it relates to nursing practice.
Dr Carolyn Mountford
Australian researcher on the use of magnetic resonance to detect subtle chemical changes in body cells that are the precursor to cancer.
Ruth C Isaacs
One of the first African-American Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) to enter Hospital Corps School at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.