Specializing in cancer pathology, Dr. Edith Sproul was the first to describe the relationship between thrombophlebitis and pancreatic cancer and the first pathologist to describe cell changes associated with the early stages of cancer of the prostate.
Dr. Eleanor Shore initiated the Fiftieth Anniversary Fellowship Program for Scholars in Medicine, to promote gender equality in career development and allow junior faculty to balance family life with their professional responsibilities without missing out on opportunities for advancement and promotion.
Dr. Elizabeth D. Hay was the first woman to be elected president of the Society for Developmental Biology, to be made full professor in a Harvard Medical School preclinical department and to be elected president of the American Society of Cell Biology.
1800s British-American abortion provider
American nurse, author and National Women’s Party president
Dr. Martha May Eliot was the first woman to be elected president of the American Public Health Association and the first woman to be awarded the American Public Health Association’s Sedgewick Memorial Medal.
1957: Dr. Ethel Collins Dunham was the first woman pediatrician to receive the American Pediatric Society’s most prestigious award, the John Howland Medal.
Served in the US Civil War disguised as a man
American public health expert, consumer advocate, and civic activist
American nurse, missionary, and activist known for her nursing work during the American Civil War.