Dr. Christine Cassel was the first woman chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the first woman president of the American College of Physicians and the first woman dean of Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Callan was the first woman president of Lake County Medical Society and the first woman editor of a special edition of Connecticut Medicine.
American medical doctor
Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist
Boston’s first school nurse
Dr. Mary Amdur was a public health researcher who is known as the “mother of air pollution toxicology.”
Over 250 of Spencer’s botanical specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
Dame Emma McCarthy was a highly decorated war-time nurse.
Sarah Carter collected botanical specimens largely from the Upper Hunter River region of New South Wales. Over 300 of Carter’s specimens are in the National Herbarium of Victoria.
In 1893, she published the first Australian Garden Guide written by a woman, “The Flower Garden in Australia. A book for Ladies and Amateurs”.