Dr Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
In 1901, Dr. Dorothy Reed Mendenhall discovered the blood cell disorder characteristic of Hodgkin’s disease, known as the Reed cell (sometimes the Reed-Sternberg).
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Dr Doris Gorka Bartuska
As a medical school professor, as well as president of the American Women’s Medical Association, she promoted the recruitment of women to leadership roles in academic medicine.
Dr Joanne Harley Lynn
Dr. Joanne Harley Lynn leads Altarum Institute’s Center on Elder Care and Advanced Illness. Previously, she was director of The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, in Washington, D.C. She was also a senior scientist for RAND, a nonprofit institution that seeks to improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis, and a clinical professor of medicine at The George Washington University, as well as president of Americans for Better Care of the Dying, a nonprofit public advocacy group that seeks to improve Medicare and Medicaid and other aspects of federal health policy.
Monica McLemore
Monica McLemore is one of the leading scholars in the field of anti-racist birth equity research, as well as in community-informed methods and policy translation.
Dr Jessie Laird Brodie
American birth control advocate
Dr Alfhild Heideman
Finnish-American doctor in the early 1900s
Dr Carol A Aschenbrener
Dr. Carol Aschenbrener is the first woman to chair the National Board of Medical Examiners and the first woman to be elected chair of the board of the Iowa Medical Society.
Dr Carol Johns
Dr. Carol Jonhs was the first woman president of the American Clinical and Climatological Association.
Dr Carol M Newton
Dr. Carol Newton developed the first computer program to calculate electron therapy treatments, the Univac I, C-10 Code in 1958 and was a founding fellow of the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering and a fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics.
Kathleen Hall
Her longstanding support of China and its people was significant in a period when many New Zealanders had little understanding of events there.