Dr Barbara L Riley
Dr. Barbara Riley is the first person from her hometown of Dillingham, Alaska, to become a physician and the first Alaskan Native appointed to the medical staff at Alaska’s Kanakanak Hospital.
Category Archives: Science
Continue reading
Dr Barbara Barlow
In 1988, Dr. Barbara Barlow founded the Injury Free Coalition for Kids.
Dr Beatrice Gee
Pediatric hematologist Beatrice Gee, M.D., is assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and practices medicine at the Georgia Sickle Cell Center at Grady Hospital.
Dr Bernadette T Freeland-Hyde
Dr. Bernadette Freeland-Hyde has served the Salt River Maricopa Indian Community since 1999.
Alice Mary Bush
Important figure in the development of paediatrics in New Zealand
Dr Frances Colón
Neuroscientist who served as Deputy Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State during the Obama administration.
Dr Inez Fung
Atmospheric scientist and one of the world’s leading experts on climate and the carbon cycle – how carbon dioxide moves throughout the land, oceans, and the atmosphere – and how its movement both depends on and alters our planet’s climate.
Dr Jennifer Richeson
Social psychologist whose research has illuminated how identities – particularly racial identities – are formed and shaped through interactions with others.
Julie A Meachen
Vertebrate paleontologist and morphologist who studies mammalian carnivores and megafauna from the late Pleistocene period (10,000 years ago) to the present day.
Lenah Higbee
In January 1911, she became the second Superintendent of the Nurse Corps. For her achievements in leading the Corps through the First World War, Chief Nurse Higbee was awarded the Navy Cross, the first woman to receive that medal.