Dr Harriet B Jones
Dr. Harriet B. Jones was the first woman licensed as a physician in West Virginia, in 1885.
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Dr Sarah Solley
Dr. Sarah Dolley was the third woman medical graduate in America, the first woman physician to complete a hospital internship and a co-founder of one of the first general women’s medical societies in the United States, the Practitioners’ Society of Rochester, New York.
Dr Marie E Zakrzewska
In 1862, Dr. Marie Zakrzewska founded the New England Hospital for Women and Children, the first hospital in Boston—and the second hospital in America—to be run by women physicians and surgeons.
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.
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.