During the Second World War she was Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Tasmania Line of Communication Area and matron-in-charge of the 1st Australian General Hospital, Australian Imperial Forces.
Elizabeth White practised medicine chiefly as a bacteriologist to Queen Charlotte’s Hospital Research Laboratories, where she was involved in puerperal fever research using Prontosil treatment in the 1930s.
Elizabeth Pope was an Australian marine zoologist highly-regarded for her research on the effect of sea temperatures and latitude on the distribution and abundance of intertidal organisms on rocky shores.
Australian plastic surgeon whose knowledge of treating burns became prominent immediately after the Bali bombings in 2002.
Early 1900s American physician
Ina Watson worked professionally as Publicity Officer for the Fisheries and Wildlife Department in Victoria, but all her spare time was devoted to birds. She was an excellent field observer and photographer who contributed both photographs and text to a number of nature journals and published natural history stories for children including Silvertail: The Story of a Lyrebird (1946).
Eva Adeline Shipton was the founder of what has become known as Sydney Diagnostic Services, when she commenced her private pathology practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney in 1928.
Fauriel Lockett, the first female professor at the University of Western Australia, was Wellcome Research Professor of Pharmacology 1963-1972.
Dorothy Frances Forsaith was Assistant Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Western Australia from 1924 to 1927. In 1936 she was appointed Honorary Director, then Administrator of the Australian Red Cross’s Blood Transfusion Service.
Gertrude Grogan was a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), New South Wales, during the Second World War.