Dr Myrtelle Canavan
In 1931, Dr. Myrtelle Canavan discovered the condition now known as “Canavan’s disease,” a progressive, degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by spongy changes in the brain.
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Dr Louise Pearce
Louise Pearce, M.D., a physician and pathologist, was one of the foremost women scientists of the early 20th century. Her research with pathologist Wade Hampton Brown led to a cure for trypanosomiasis (African Sleeping sickness) in 1919.
Madeleine ffrench-Mullen
Irish nationalist and social advocate
Dr Mary Glowrey
Born in 1887, Dr Sr Glowrey was a gifted medical doctor and religious sister who was passionate about the role of women in medicine
Jennie Collins
In 1870, Jennie Collins founded Boffin’s Bower in Boston to provide working women with a place to read and socialize, as well as food, clothing, job placement, and other aid.
Dr Nouria Salehi
In addition to her ongoing research in nuclear medicine, Nouria has travelled to Afghanistan many times, at the risk of her own life, to establish science teacher training programs, apprenticeships, literacy programs, and a range of other constructive initiatives, to drive change and empower young people and women and their communities.
Dr Rosalie Slaughter Morton
In 1909, Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton was the first chair of the Public Health Education Committee of the American Medical Association. She was one of the first women faculty members at the New York Polyclinic Hospital and Post-Graduate Medical School and the first woman faculty member at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Lt. Col. Juanita Redmond Hipps
Juanita Redmond Hipps trained as a nurse at South Caroline State Hospital and joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1936. She was sent to Manila, in the Philippines soon after joining.
Celeste Bowe
Irish Daughter of Charity and nurse
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Multidisciplinary artist, educator, and member of the US President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities