Dr Bernadine Healy
In 1991, Dr. Bernadine Healy became the first woman to direct the National Institutes of Health.
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Dr Bertha Van Hoosen
Dr. Van Hoosen was a founder of the American Medical Women’s Association and served as the organization’s first president.
Dr Debi Thomas
Debi Thomas, M.D., grew up wanting to be a champion figure skater and a doctor, and she has succeeded as both. In 1988, she won the bronze Olympic medal and in 1997 she graduated from Northwestern University Medical School.
Rachel Benton
Paleontologist with the US National Park Service
Dr Agnes D Lattimer
Pediatrician and the first African American woman medical director of a major hospital.
Dr Alexa Irene Canady
The first African American woman in the United States to become a neurosurgeon.
Dr Alice Bennett
The first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Anna Wessels Williams
The first woman elected chair of the laboratory section of the American Public Health Association; isolated a strain of the diptheria bacillus that was used to develop an antitoxin for diphtheria.
Dr Adela S Valdez
The first Hispanic administrator to serve at South Texas Hospital, Harlingen, Texas.
Katherine Stinson
She went to Chicago in late 1912 and became popular aviator Max Lillie’s first female student. Within two months she earned the nation’s 148th pilot’s license, the fourth woman to do so.