Betty Jeffrey
Agnes Betty Jeffrey was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service when she was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942.
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Agnes Lions
Agnes Mary Lions was one of four founders of the New South Wales College of Nursing (NSWCN) in 1949.
Dr Alice Ettinger
In 1959, Dr. Alice Ettinger became the first chair of radiology at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Dr Elizabeth D A Magnus Cohen
Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Magnus Cohen, a surgeon, became the first woman physician licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana in 1857.
Dr Sara Josephine Baker
Dr. S. Josephine Baker became the first director of the New York City Bureau of Child Hygiene, the first such bureau in the country, in 1908. In 1917, she was the first woman to earn a doctorate in public health from the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
Dr Helen Brooke Taussig
Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association.
Dr Connie Guion
Dr. Connie Myers Guion was the first woman in the United States to be named professor of clinical medicine in 1946. She founded Cornell Pay Clinic, which greatly improved outpatient care in New York, and devised a new curriculum for training clinicians.
Dr Dorothy Hansine Anderson
Dr. Andersen was the first to recognize cystic fibrosis as a disease and helped create a test to diagnose it in 1938.
Dr Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
In 1901, Dr. Dorothy Reed Mendenhall discovered the blood cell disorder characteristic of Hodgkin’s disease, known as the Reed cell (sometimes the Reed-Sternberg).
Dr Doris Gorka Bartuska
As a medical school professor, as well as president of the American Women’s Medical Association, she promoted the recruitment of women to leadership roles in academic medicine.