Rear Admiral Mary Joan Nielubowicz
Mary Joan Nielubowicz was the only woman in the Navy Nurse Corps to earn the rank of Commodore and the first non-physician to earn the role of Deputy Commander for Health Care Operations in 1984.
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Jean O’Neill
Irish plantswoman and horticulturalist
Dr Patricia Sheehan
Irish medical doctor, speech therapist, and campaigner against nuclear power
Dorothy Stopford-Price
Irish paediatrician
Dr Ella Webb
Irish paediatrician
Lavinia Loughridge
Irish nephrologist and physician
Dr Margaret Dunlevy
Irish physician and epidemiologist
Grace Alexandra Rood
New Zealand dental nurse
Grace Hirst
New Zealand farmer, midwife, nurse and businesswoman
Eleanor Alexander
A delegate from Armagh to the first meeting of the Women’s National Health Association of Ireland (April 1908), she was awarded the MBE (1918) for war work, having been in charge of an auxiliary military hospital.