Jennie Shirreff
1800s Canadian nurse, businesswoman, and philanthropist
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Betty Jeffrey
Agnes Betty Jeffrey was a member of the Australian Army Nursing Service when she was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942.
Agnes Lions
Agnes Mary Lions was one of four founders of the New South Wales College of Nursing (NSWCN) in 1949.
Dr Miruna Achim
Mexican researcher and academic
Dr Alice Ettinger
In 1959, Dr. Alice Ettinger became the first chair of radiology at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Dr Sara Josephine Baker
Dr. S. Josephine Baker became the first director of the New York City Bureau of Child Hygiene, the first such bureau in the country, in 1908. In 1917, she was the first woman to earn a doctorate in public health from the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
Dr Helen Brooke Taussig
Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association.
Dr Joyce Vickery
Joyce Vickery was a forensic botanist who was most noted for her work on the kidnap and murder case of Graham Thorne in 1960.
Dr Elizabeth D A Magnus Cohen
Dr. Elizabeth D. A. Magnus Cohen, a surgeon, became the first woman physician licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana in 1857.
Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross pioneered the concept of providing psychological counseling to the dying. In her first book, On Death and Dying (1969), she described five stages she believed were experienced by those nearing death—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.