Dr Fernande Marie Pelletier
Sister Fernande Pelletier, M.D., a member of the Medical Mission Sisters has worked overseas for more than forty years, carrying out the mission of her order in Ghana and offering medical care to underserved populations.
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Dr Grete Lehner Bibring
Appointed chief of psychiatry at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital in 1946 and in 1961 she became one of only a few woman physicians appointed to a full professorship at Harvard Medical School at the time.
Dr Consuelo E M Carmona
New Mexico obstetrician and gynecologist
Dr Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Massachusetts’ first woman Commissioner of Public Health, as well as its youngest, where she established the US’s first Violence Prevention Office at a state health department.
Dr Delores Maria Leon
Dr. Delores Leon became the first woman to become a flight surgeon in the United States Army and the first woman to serve as commander of the 545th General Dispensary, Camp Humphreys, Korea in 1975.
Dr Donna Christensen
Dr. Christian-Christensen was the first woman delegate from the United States Virgin Islands and the first woman to represent an offshore Territory, as well as the first woman physician in the U.S. Congress.
Commander Bernice Walters
Commander Bernice “Burma” Nordstrom forged a path ahead for women in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy.
Dr Carol Nadelson
Dr. Carol Nadelson was the first woman president of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr Barbara L Riley
Dr. Barbara Riley is the first person from her hometown of Dillingham, Alaska, to become a physician and the first Alaskan Native appointed to the medical staff at Alaska’s Kanakanak Hospital.
Dr Barbara Barlow
In 1988, Dr. Barbara Barlow founded the Injury Free Coalition for Kids.