Lieutenant Commander Josephine Beatrice Bowman
In 1908, she joined the newly-established U.S. Navy Nurse Corps as one of its first twenty members. She was promoted to Chief Nurse in 1911. In 1919, she became the first Navy women to serve at sea.
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Dr Audrey Elizabeth Evans
In 1971, Dr. Audrey Evans developed the Evans Staging System for neuroblastoma and initiated the ‘Advances in Neuroblastoma Research’ conference.
Dr Barbara Ross-Lee
Barbara Ross-Lee, D.O., became the first African American woman to be appointed dean of an American medical school in 1993.
Dr Bernadine Healy
In 1991, Dr. Bernadine Healy became the first woman to direct the National Institutes of Health.
Dr Bertha Van Hoosen
Dr. Van Hoosen was a founder of the American Medical Women’s Association and served as the organization’s first president.
Dr Debi Thomas
Debi Thomas, M.D., grew up wanting to be a champion figure skater and a doctor, and she has succeeded as both. In 1988, she won the bronze Olympic medal and in 1997 she graduated from Northwestern University Medical School.
Dr Agnes D Lattimer
Pediatrician and the first African American woman medical director of a major hospital.
Dr Alexa Irene Canady
The first African American woman in the United States to become a neurosurgeon.
Dr Alice Bennett
The first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Anna Wessels Williams
The first woman elected chair of the laboratory section of the American Public Health Association; isolated a strain of the diptheria bacillus that was used to develop an antitoxin for diphtheria.