Dr. Anna Lenore Skow Southam conducted extensive research and published widely in the area of reproductive health, infertility, and sterility, and performed some of the earliest clinical evaluations of a rapid immunological pregnancy test.
Anne McKusick, M.D., was part of a significant number of scientists involved in wartime research on the atomic bomb who abandoned physics to join the biomedical sciences.
During her forty-five years working with the Children’s Cancer Group (CCG) at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Anneliese Sitarz saw cancer survival in children surge from 1 percent to 80 percent.
In 1974, Dr. Barbara Bates developed and wrote a guide to patient history taking that has become the standard text for medical students.
Puerto Rican surgeon
Dr. Sharon Malotte was the first indigenous Nevadan to become a doctor in 1989.
In 1973, Dr. Shirley Marks was the first Spelman College alumna, and only the second African American woman in twenty-three years to graduate from Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Susan Sloan co-founded the Intertribal Alliance of Medical Students in Minneapolis in 1996 and served as its first president.
Dr. Susan Karol was first woman of the Tuscarora Indian Nation to become a surgeon in 1988 and the first woman to be made chief of surgery at Beverly Hospital in Massachusetts in 1996.
Sylvia Ramos, M.D., was a clinical professor of surgery at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Throughout her career, she focused on breast cancer and the use of ultrasound for diagnostic procedures and the role of peer support on quality of life and outcomes for cancer survivors.