Wendy Wamsley Taines
American army corporal who served as a medic during the Persian Gulf War
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Dr Helen Mary Mayo
Helen Mayo opened a practice in Adelaide in 1906 specializing in midwifery and the health of women and children. She lectured at the University of Adelaide 1926-1934 and founded the Mothers’ and Babies’ Health Association and the Mareeba Babies’ Hospital.
Dr Grace Boelke
One of the first two women medical graduates of the University of Sydney, 1893.
Alice Reeves
Matron of Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin
Agnes McArthur
Australian nurse administrator
Dr Claire Weekes
Hazel Weekes was a zoologist noted for her pioneering work on the placentation of viviparous reptiles and its possible relationship to that of mammals.
Dr Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy
Dr. Lovejoy was the first woman to direct a city department of health, the Portland Board of Health, in Oregon and was co-founder and first director of the Medical Women’s International Association.
Dr Emily Dunning Barringer
1902: Dr. Emily Barringer was the first woman ambulance physician at New York City’s Gouverneur Hospital and the first woman medical resident at New York City’s Gouverneur Hospital.
Lilian Helen Alexander
Australian surgeon and one of the first women to study medicine at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Ishiko Shibuya Mori
An early Issei female physician, Ishiko Shibuya Mori (1899–1972) was one of eight women from Hawai’i sent into internment on the mainland during WWII.