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.
American biomedical engineer, patent-holding inventor, author, and entrepreneur
American psychologist and medical doctor who researched cults
Beverley Taylor’s research interests involve qualitative approaches to explore the human condition, as it relates to nursing practice.
Australian researcher on the use of magnetic resonance to detect subtle chemical changes in body cells that are the precursor to cancer.
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.
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.
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.
NASA astronaut and medical doctor
1964: Dr. Irena Koprowska was the first woman appointed to a full professor at Philadelphia’s Hahnemann Medical College.
1966: Dr. Irena Koprowska co-authored a case report of the earliest diagnosis of lung cancer by a sputum smear.