Adah Thoms

Adah Belle Samuels Thoms was an African-American nurse who co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and served as president from 1916 to 1923.

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Winifred Kennan

Winifred Kennan worked with Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital as its medical superintendent from 1921-1923 and later as honorary consultant obstetrician.

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Dr Janet Graeme Travell

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.

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Dr Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett

Dr Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett OBE was a New Zealand doctor. She served as the Chief Medical Officer of a medical unit during World War I and was later awarded an O.B.E. for her services in improving the health of women and children.

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