Dr Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
In 1901, Dr. Dorothy Reed Mendenhall discovered the blood cell disorder characteristic of Hodgkin’s disease, known as the Reed cell (sometimes the Reed-Sternberg).
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Dr Doris Gorka Bartuska
As a medical school professor, as well as president of the American Women’s Medical Association, she promoted the recruitment of women to leadership roles in academic medicine.
Joan Freeman
Joan Freeman began her career at CSIR Radiophysics Laboratory during World War II, working on the production of a 10cm microwave radar set. She spent most of her working life at the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell.
Dr Joanne Harley Lynn
Dr. Joanne Harley Lynn leads Altarum Institute’s Center on Elder Care and Advanced Illness. Previously, she was director of The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, in Washington, D.C. She was also a senior scientist for RAND, a nonprofit institution that seeks to improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis, and a clinical professor of medicine at The George Washington University, as well as president of Americans for Better Care of the Dying, a nonprofit public advocacy group that seeks to improve Medicare and Medicaid and other aspects of federal health policy.
Dr Carolyn Robinowitz
Dr. Carolyn Robinowitz was the founding director of the American Psychiatric Office of Education in 1976 and the first woman psychiatrist elected to the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1979.
Monica McLemore
Monica McLemore is one of the leading scholars in the field of anti-racist birth equity research, as well as in community-informed methods and policy translation.
Dr Jessie Laird Brodie
American birth control advocate
Christina Lomasney
With over two decades of experience, she has become a veteran entrepreneur, making significant strides and contributions in the field of materials science and electrochemistry.
Rosa Franklin
The first African-American woman to serve as a Washington state senator
Andrea Frost
Software engineer