Bridget Dirrane
Irish nurse, centenarian and memoirist
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Mary Crowley
Irish nurse and educator
Dr Mary-Claire King
Dr. King’s important discovery of the BRCA1 gene in 1990 transformed the medical world for breast cancer.
Sarah Higgins
New Zealand midwife, community leader and writer
Dr Barbara J McNeil
In 1988, Dr. Barbara J. McNeil was the founding head of the department of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
Dr Anneliese Lotte Sitarz
During her forty-five years working with the Children’s Cancer Group (CCG) at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Anneliese Sitarz saw cancer survival in children surge from 1 percent to 80 percent.
Dr Barbara Bates
In 1974, Dr. Barbara Bates developed and wrote a guide to patient history taking that has become the standard text for medical students.
Mary Cuddie
1800s New Zealand farmer, midwife and shopkeeper
Dr Alice Drew Chenoweth
From her small-town beginnings, she eventually made her way to the nation’s capital, serving in a number of distinguished federal government positions at a time when few women held such posts.
Dr Alma Dea Morani
Dr. Morani was the first woman surgical intern at St. James Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, the first woman surgical resident at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and the first woman admitted to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.