Dr Blanche Sellers Lavizzo
Dr. Blanche Sellers Lavizzo was the first African American woman pediatrician in the state of Washington.
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Dr Rosalie Reddick Miller
Dr. Rosalie Reddick Miller was the first African American woman dentist to practice in the State of Washington.
Dr Ruby Inouye Shu
Dr. Ruby Inouye Shu was the first Japanese American woman physician in Seattle and an icon in the local Japanese community.
Dr Ethel Schwartz Weinberg
1970: Dr. Ethel Weinberg organized and received American Medical Association approval for the first internship in acute care medicine. This later evolved into the specialty of emergency medicine.
Dr Esther M Sternberg
1980: Dr. Sternberg was the first to describe the L-Tryptophan Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome in relation to ingestion of the amino acid food supplement, L-Tryptophan.
Dr Edith E Sproul
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 Gossard Shore
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 Betty Hay
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.
Ann Trow Lohman
1800s British-American abortion provider
Sarah Tarleton Colvin
American nurse, author and National Women’s Party president