Dr Alice Ettinger
In 1959, Dr. Alice Ettinger became the first chair of radiology at Tufts University School of Medicine.
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Dr Sara Josephine Baker
Dr. S. Josephine Baker became the first director of the New York City Bureau of Child Hygiene, the first such bureau in the country, in 1908. In 1917, she was the first woman to earn a doctorate in public health from the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
Dr Helen Brooke Taussig
Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association.
Dr Elizabeth D A Magnus Cohen
Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Magnus Cohen, a surgeon, became the first woman physician licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana in 1857.
Dr Connie Guion
Dr. Connie Myers Guion was the first woman in the United States to be named professor of clinical medicine in 1946. She founded Cornell Pay Clinic, which greatly improved outpatient care in New York, and devised a new curriculum for training clinicians.
Dr Dorothy Hansine Anderson
Dr. Andersen was the first to recognize cystic fibrosis as a disease and helped create a test to diagnose it in 1938.
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).
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.