Dr Mary Safford-Blake
Mary Jane Safford (1834-1891), known as the “Cairo Angel,” was a nurse during the Civil War and later a physician and advocate for women’s health and suffrage. She taught at the Boston University School of Medicine.
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Frances Stern
One of the first nutritionists in the United States.
Margaret Curtis
National golf champion who, with her sister, opened the East Boston Dispensary, and co-founded the Curtis Cup, the best known team trophy for amateur women golfers.
Harriot Curtis
National golf champion and skiier who, with her sister, opened the East Boston Dispensary, became a dean at Hampton Institute in Virginia and co-founded the Curtis Cup, the best known team trophy for amateur women golfers.
Dr Helen Cordelia Putnam
Co-founder of the American Child Health Association, organized to promote cleaner schools, better health care for children, and the teaching of health education with the involvement of parents in 1923. While serving as president of the American Academy of Medicine, she organized a conference that resulted in the establishment of the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality.
Elsie Scott
Publish health nurse for the San Juan Islands, a remote, rural archipelago in the Salish Sea of the Pacific Northwest between the Washington mainland and Canada’s Vancouver Island.
Dr Edyth Hull Schoenrich
Dr. Edyth Schoenrich was the first woman to be appointed to the American Board of Preventive Medicine and played a leading role in the development of one of the premier preventive medicine programs in the US at Johns Hopkins.
Dr Elise Depew Strang L’Esperance
1937: Dr. Elise L’Esperance founded the Kate Depew Strang Tumor Clinic (now the Strang Cancer Prevention Center).
Dr Martha May Eliot
Dr. Martha May Eliot was the first woman to be elected president of the American Public Health Association and the first woman to be awarded the American Public Health Association’s Sedgewick Memorial Medal.
Dr Ethel Collins Dunham
1957: Dr. Ethel Collins Dunham was the first woman pediatrician to receive the American Pediatric Society’s most prestigious award, the John Howland Medal.