In 1974 she returned to NIH as the Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the first woman to hold an institute directorship, and in 1993 she became Deputy Director of NIH, a position she carried out for the next decade.
After being nominated as the first female Commissioner of FDA by President Bill Clinton, she became the first FDA Commissioner to go through the grueling Senate confirmation process in 1999. Supporters of the nomination maintained that given both her medical acumen and administrative talent and experience, she was the most qualified Commissioner FDA had ever had.
Superintendent and chief of the US Army Nurse Corps during WWII
U.S. Army Veteran who served during World War II from 1944 to 1946.
1910s British amateur filmmaker
During her lifetime, Dr. Louise Eisenhardt was considered one of the foremost neuropathologists in the world.
In 1943, Dr. Margaret Craighill was the first woman to become a commissioned officer in the United States Army.
Astronaut and medical doctor
Australian doctor; director of the Victorian Health Department’s section of infant welfare 1926-1946. She wrote books on the care of infants and young children and her 1937 report for the National Health and Medical Research Council prompted government funding of the Lady Gowrie Child Centres.
Professor Ruth Bishop was the first person to discover the virus that causes gastroenteritis in the 1970s.