Betty Mae Tiger Jumper
Betty Mae Tiger Jumper was the first and, to date, only female chief of Florida’s Seminole tribe.
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Dr Christie Huddleston
Dr. Christie Huddleston was a founding member of the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine.
Dr Christine Karen Cassel
Dr. Christine Cassel was the first woman chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the first woman president of the American College of Physicians and the first woman dean of Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
Dr Clair Mills Callan
Dr. Callan was the first woman president of Lake County Medical Society and the first woman editor of a special edition of Connecticut Medicine.
Dr Deborah Powell
American medical doctor
Dr Heather Munro
Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist
Annie McKay
Boston’s first school nurse
Dr Mary Amdur
Dr. Mary Amdur was a public health researcher who is known as the “mother of air pollution toxicology.”
Dr June Halliday
June Halliday was appointed Member of the Order of Australia, 11 June 1990, for service to medical science, particularly in the field of biochemical research.
Jane Hellicar
Jane Hellicar was the first Nightingale-nurse to be employed as Lady Superintendent of any hospital in Queensland. In 1877 she was appointed to the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane, the second children’s hospital established in Australia.