Dr Merlyn Meneze Rodrigues
Dr. Merlyn Meneze Rodrigues, M.D., has devoted her career to public service on both the state and federal levels as a professor, senior scientist, educator, and administrator.
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Dr Maxine Hayes
Maxine Hayes has dedicated her life to teaching and public service, focusing her efforts on disease prevention.
Dr Marilyn Hughes Gaston
Dr. Gaston was the first African American woman to direct a Public Health Service Bureau.
Dr Marilyn A Roubidoux
Marilyn A. Roubidoux, M.D., works to bring existing medical tools to the underserved to diagnose cancer and identify risk factors for the disease.
Dr Martha Medrano
Dr. Martha Medrano is a pioneer in medical education who wants works to make medical students more culturally competent.
Dr Matilda Arabella Evans
Dr. Matilda Evans was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina.
Dr Marie Amos Dobyns
Dr. Marie Amos Dobyns is an Eastern Cherokee Native American, who fully integrates her Indian heritage into her medical practice.
Dr May Edward Chinn
Dr. Chinn was the first African American woman to hold an internship at Harlem Hospital, the first woman to ride with the Harlem Hospital ambulance crew on emergency calls and the first African American woman to graduate from the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1926.
Dr Lillie Rose Minoka-Hill
Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill earned her doctor of medicine degree at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1899, making her the second Native American woman in the United States to hold an M.D. degree (Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first). She used her professional status to help other Native Americans, working at public clinics and dispensaries and at a school for Native American children.
Dr Linda M Dairiki Shortliffe
Dr. Linda M. Dairki Shortliffe built a successful career in the relatively new field of pediatric urology when very few women surgeons were doing such work. Since 1988, she has been at the Stanford University School of Medicine Medical Center and Packard Children’s Hospital as chief of pediatric urology. Since 1993, she has also been director of the Urology Residency Program at Stanford, and has been successful in recruiting more women physicians to her specialty.