On 3 May 1897 she became the first New Zealand woman to register as a doctor and subsequently to engage in general medical practice. For the rest of her life, apart from a year’s study overseas, Cruickshank worked in Waimate, where she was made a partner in the practice.
In 1908, she joined the newly-established U.S. Navy Nurse Corps as one of its first twenty members. She was promoted to Chief Nurse in 1911. In 1919, she became the first Navy women to serve at sea.
Debi Thomas, M.D., grew up wanting to be a champion figure skater and a doctor, and she has succeeded as both. In 1988, she won the bronze Olympic medal and in 1997 she graduated from Northwestern University Medical School.
In 1971, Dr. Audrey Evans developed the Evans Staging System for neuroblastoma and initiated the ‘Advances in Neuroblastoma Research’ conference.
Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., became the first African American woman to be appointed dean of an American medical school in 1993.
In 1991, Dr. Bernadine Healy became the first woman to direct the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Van Hoosen was a founder of the American Medical Women’s Association and served as the organization’s first president.
Pediatrician and the first African American woman medical director of a major hospital.
The first African American woman in the United States to become a neurosurgeon.
The first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.