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Winifred Kennan earned her MB BS from the University of Melbourne in 1920, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. She worked with Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital as its medical superintendent from 1921-1923 and later as honorary consultant obstetrician. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to medicine on 11 June 1977.

Dr Margaret Clark practiced medicine in remote areas of Western Australia at Lake Grace, often working under difficult conditions. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 9 June 1949 for her services to medicine in isolated areas. A piece in The West Australian on 9 June 1949, noted that ‘she has ministered to isolated patients in a wide area, travelling in all weathers over lonely and difficult roads. She has preferred to remain at Lake Grace rather than move to another centre where the amenities would be much superior’. She was also a founding member of the Lake Grace branch of the Country Women’s Association.

Janet Graeme Travell was an American physician and medical researcher. She was the first woman to be appointed as the presidential physician, by John F. Kennedy in 1961.