Dr Fannie Almara Quain
Dr. Fannie Quain earned a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1898 and was a co-founder of the North Dakota Tuberculosis Association (now the American Lung Association of North Dakota).
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Dr Jane Stocks Greig
Jane Greig was a founder of the Victorian Medical Women’s Society and the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. She was a medical officer (and from 1929 Chief Medical Officer) with the Victorian Department of Education providing medical services for schoolchildren.
Dr Hannah Mary Helen Sexton
Hannah Sexton, in 1892, became the third women to graduate MB BS from the University of Melbourne. In 1896 she helped found the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children and was the leader of surgical work until 1908.
Dr Janet Greig
Janet Greig was one of the founders of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne and one of the first woman anaesthetists in Victoria.
Dr Kate Campbell
Dr Kate Campbell was the first person to demonstrate a link between blindness in premature babies and oxygen levels in humidicribs.
Dr Mary Hannan
Irish doctor
Ethna MacCarthy
Irish poet and paediatrician
Maura O’Donohue
Irish missionary doctor and public health campaigner
Dr Eva Jellett
Irish doctor
Dr Attracta Rewcastle
Irish doctor, politician, and the first female Commissioned Officer in the Royal Navy