Elsie Scott
Publish health nurse for the San Juan Islands, a remote, rural archipelago in the Salish Sea of the Pacific Northwest between the Washington mainland and Canada’s Vancouver Island.
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Dr Eve Slater
In 2002 Eve Elizabeth Slater, M.D., became the first woman to become assistant secretary for health in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Dr Hannah E Myers Longshore
When Dr. Hannah Myers Longshore began a private practice in Philadelphia, in 1853, she was the city’s first woman doctor.
Dr Mary Dixon Jones
In 1888, Dr. Mary Dixon Jones was the first person in America to propose and perform a total hysterectomy for myoma (a tumor of muscle tissue) of the uterus.
Belinda Morieson
Belinda Morieson was Branch Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation, Victoria Branch (ANF(Vic)) from 1989-2001.
Dr Constance Urciolo Battle
From 1973 to 1995, she served as chief executive officer and medical director of the Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, D.C.
Dr Anna Broomall
1888: Dr. Broomall established one of the first clinics for out-practice maternity care in the United States.
Dr Elise Depew Strang L’Esperance
1937: Dr. Elise L’Esperance founded the Kate Depew Strang Tumor Clinic (now the Strang Cancer Prevention Center).
Dr Clara Marshall
In 1882 Dr. Clara Marshall became the first woman on the staff of the Philadelphia Hospital.
Dr Edyth Hull Schoenrich
Dr. Edyth Schoenrich was the first woman to be appointed to the American Board of Preventive Medicine and played a leading role in the development of one of the premier preventive medicine programs in the US at Johns Hopkins.