Helen Mayo opened a practice in Adelaide in 1906 specializing in midwifery and the health of women and children. She lectured at the University of Adelaide 1926-1934 and founded the Mothers’ and Babies’ Health Association and the Mareeba Babies’ Hospital.
One of the first two women medical graduates of the University of Sydney, 1893.
Matron of Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin
Australian nurse administrator
Hazel Weekes was a zoologist noted for her pioneering work on the placentation of viviparous reptiles and its possible relationship to that of mammals.
Dr. Lovejoy was the first woman to direct a city department of health, the Portland Board of Health, in Oregon and was co-founder and first director of the Medical Women’s International Association.
1902: Dr. Emily Barringer was the first woman ambulance physician at New York City’s Gouverneur Hospital and the first woman medical resident at New York City’s Gouverneur Hospital.
Australian surgeon and one of the first women to study medicine at the University of Melbourne.
An early Issei female physician, Ishiko Shibuya Mori (1899–1972) was one of eight women from Hawai’i sent into internment on the mainland during WWII.
Ruth Boynton was a physician, researcher, and administrator who spent almost her entire career at the University of Minnesota (U of M). She worked in public health and student health services at a time (the mid-twentieth century) when there were few women in either of those fields.