Dr Eliza Ann Grier
Dr. Eliza Ann Grier was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in Georgia.
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Dr Eliza Lo Chin
Eliza Lo Chin, M.D., has drawn inspiration from her female colleagues who strive to combine family responsibilities with a career in medicine. She has collected their experiences in her book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine, published in 2002. For her continuing work on women’s issues in medicine, Dr. Chin was nominated for the New York branch of the American Medical Women’s Association’s Outstanding Woman Physician Award for the year 2000.
Dr Catharine Gail Kincaid
Dr. Catharine Kincaid was the first American Indian to receive a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health/American Psychiatric Association.
Dr Cecilia M Romero
Dr. Cecilia Romero has helped more than 500 young doctors better serve their Hispanic patients.
Dr Clara Arena Brawner
Dr. Clara Brawner was the only practicing African American woman physician in Memphis in the mid-1950s.
Dr Clarice D Reid
Dr. Clarice Reid began her education in the segregated schools of Birmingham, Alabama, and went on to become director of the Division of Blood Diseases and Resources, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.
Dr Frances Oldham Kelsey
In 1960, during her first month at the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey took a bold stance against inadequate testing and corporate pressure when she refused to approve release of thalidomide in the United States. The drug had been used as a sleeping pill and was later proven to have caused thousands of birth deformities in Germany and Great Britain.
Captain Sue S Dauser
She became a Navy Nurse in September 1917, subseqently serving with Naval Base Hospital Number 3 in the U.S. and in Scotland during World War I, holding the grade of Chief Nurse for most of that period. Following the war, she was placed in charge of nursing activities at the U.S. Naval Hospital at San Diego, California.
Dr Audrey Forbes Manley
Dr. Audrey Forbes Manley was the first African American woman to achieve the rank of Assistant Surgeon General (Rear Admiral).
Dr Dorothy Lavinia Brown
Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown was the first African American woman surgeon in the South, the first single woman in Tennessee to be granted the right to become an adoptive parent and the first African American woman to serve in the Tennessee state legislature.