Dr Angela M Erdrich
As a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa (Ojibwe) from Wahpeton, North Dakota, Angela M. Erdrich, M.D., brings her interest in American Indian art, history, and health care systems to her practice of pediatric medicine.
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Dr Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Massachusetts’ first woman Commissioner of Public Health, as well as its youngest, where she established the US’s first Violence Prevention Office at a state health department.
Dr Delores Maria Leon
Dr. Delores Leon became the first woman to become a flight surgeon in the United States Army and the first woman to serve as commander of the 545th General Dispensary, Camp Humphreys, Korea in 1975.
Dr Donna Christensen
Dr. Christian-Christensen was the first woman delegate from the United States Virgin Islands and the first woman to represent an offshore Territory, as well as the first woman physician in the U.S. Congress.
Dr Fernande Marie Pelletier
Sister Fernande Pelletier, M.D., a member of the Medical Mission Sisters has worked overseas for more than forty years, carrying out the mission of her order in Ghana and offering medical care to underserved populations.
Dr Grete Lehner Bibring
Appointed chief of psychiatry at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital in 1946 and in 1961 she became one of only a few woman physicians appointed to a full professorship at Harvard Medical School at the time.
Dr Consuelo E M Carmona
New Mexico obstetrician and gynecologist
Commander Dr Bernice Walters
Commander Bernice “Burma” Nordstrom forged a path ahead for women in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy.
Dr Carol Nadelson
Dr. Carol Nadelson was the first woman president of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr Emily Blackwell
With her sister Elizabeth Blackwell and their colleague Marie Zakrzewska, co-founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, the first hospital run by women and the first dedicated to serving women and children in the United States.