She entered the Navy Nurse Corps in March 1909 and served in Naval medical facilities in the United States and in the Philippines during the years prior to World War I. She was a Chief Nurse at Navy Base Hospital # 1, in Brest, France, in 1918-19, and served as an Assistant Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1923-30. Subsequent assignments included duty at Great Lakes, San Diego, and Philadelphia.
From 1992 to 1994 she served as president of the New Mexico Hispanic Medical Association.
Dr. Elizabeth O. Ofili was the first woman president of the Association of Black Cardiologists.
The first Māori woman to become a medical doctor.
Dr. Edith Irby Jones was the first woman to be elected president of the National Medical Association and the first African American student to attend the University of Arkansas School of Medicine (now the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences).
Dr. Elena Rios was one of the founders of the National Network of Latin American Medical Students and the National Hispanic Medical Association.
Dr. Eliza Ann Grier was the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in Georgia.
Eliza Lo Chin, M.D., has drawn inspiration from her female colleagues who strive to combine family responsibilities with a career in medicine. She has collected their experiences in her book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections From Women in Medicine, published in 2002. For her continuing work on women’s issues in medicine, Dr. Chin was nominated for the New York branch of the American Medical Women’s Association’s Outstanding Woman Physician Award for the year 2000.
Dr. Catharine Kincaid was the first American Indian to receive a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health/American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Cecilia Romero has helped more than 500 young doctors better serve their Hispanic patients.