Dr Rhea Seddon
Astronaut and medical doctor
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Dr Vera Scantlebury Brown
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.
Dr Ruth Bishop
Professor Ruth Bishop was the first person to discover the virus that causes gastroenteritis in the 1970s.
Dr Misty Jenkins
Dr Jenkins is a woman of Gunditjama descent and an advocate for gender equity, Aboriginal health and education.
Dr Kate Pelham Newcomb
In 1949, Dr. Newcomb marshaled the community to raise funds for a hospital in rural Wisconsin, to improve the medical care available to all residents.
Dr Margaret Irving Handy
The first doctor specializing in pediatrics to practice in Delaware
Dr MaryAnn Bin-Sallik
Professor MaryAnn Bin-Sallik was a proud Djaru Elder and the first Indigenous Australian woman to receive a doctorate, in 1989
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.
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