Joan Savage
Joan Savage worked in private dental practice in 1936, before becoming the director of dental health education at the Australian Dental Association, New South Wales Branch in 1937.
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Dr Margaret Schlink
Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist
Dr Joan Refshauge
Joan Refshauge was an Australian medical practitioner and leader in the field of public health.
Dr Joan Tully
Australian scientist who held a number of posts at the Council for Scientific Research (CSIR) and later the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Lilian Ross Fraser
Lillian Ross Fraser was a botanist whose work identifying fungi and viruses was hugely beneficial to the New South Wales citrus industry.
Andree Layton Roaf
Andree Yvonne Layton Roaf was an Arkansas attorney and jurist who distinguished herself in the fields of biology, law, and community service.
Lilian Marguerite Medland
Lilian Medland trained and worked for many years as a nurse in England and illustrated The Birds of the British Isles between 1906 and 1911, among other books.
Margaret Lang
Australian nurse Margaret Lang was matron of various Victorian country hospitals, served in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) during the First World War and was founder and Matron-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Nursing Service during the Second World War.
Lucy Compson Daw
Lucy Daw was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1939 in recognition of her work as matron of the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Kate Mackay
Kate MacKay was a resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital in 1922, the Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, in 1923 and the Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, in 1924. In 1939 she became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.