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.
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.
Irish Daughter of Charity and nurse
Multidisciplinary artist, educator, and member of the US President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
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).
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.
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.
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 was the first person to demonstrate a link between blindness in premature babies and oxygen levels in humidicribs.
Irish doctor