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.

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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.

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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.

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Dr Ann Connor Jobe

After a career in nursing she trained as a physician and later become dean of Mercer University School of Medicine in Macon, Georgia, when only eight women served as deans in United States medical schools.

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Dr Anna Lenore Skow Southam

Dr. Anna Lenore Skow Southam conducted extensive research and published widely in the area of reproductive health, infertility, and sterility, and performed some of the earliest clinical evaluations of a rapid immunological pregnancy test.

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Dr Anne Bishop McKusick

Anne McKusick, M.D., was part of a significant number of scientists involved in wartime research on the atomic bomb who abandoned physics to join the biomedical sciences.

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Dr Susan Veronica Karol

Dr. Susan Karol was first woman of the Tuscarora Indian Nation to become a surgeon in 1988 and the first woman to be made chief of surgery at Beverly Hospital in Massachusetts in 1996.

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Dr Sylvia M Ramos

Sylvia Ramos, M.D., was a clinical professor of surgery at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Throughout her career, she focused on breast cancer and the use of ultrasound for diagnostic procedures and the role of peer support on quality of life and outcomes for cancer survivors.

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