Dr. Connie Myers Guion was the first woman in the United States to be named professor of clinical medicine in 1946. She founded Cornell Pay Clinic, which greatly improved outpatient care in New York, and devised a new curriculum for training clinicians.
In 1901, Dr. Dorothy Reed Mendenhall discovered the blood cell disorder characteristic of Hodgkin’s disease, known as the Reed cell (sometimes the Reed-Sternberg).
As a medical school professor, as well as president of the American Women’s Medical Association, she promoted the recruitment of women to leadership roles in academic medicine.
Dr. Joanne Harley Lynn leads Altarum Institute’s Center on Elder Care and Advanced Illness. Previously, she was director of The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, in Washington, D.C. She was also a senior scientist for RAND, a nonprofit institution that seeks to improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis, and a clinical professor of medicine at The George Washington University, as well as president of Americans for Better Care of the Dying, a nonprofit public advocacy group that seeks to improve Medicare and Medicaid and other aspects of federal health policy.
Monica McLemore is one of the leading scholars in the field of anti-racist birth equity research, as well as in community-informed methods and policy translation.
American birth control advocate
The first African-American woman to serve as a Washington state senator
Finnish-American doctor in the early 1900s
Dr. Carol Aschenbrener is the first woman to chair the National Board of Medical Examiners and the first woman to be elected chair of the board of the Iowa Medical Society.
Dr. Carol Jonhs was the first woman president of the American Clinical and Climatological Association.