Dr Bernadine Healy
In 1991, Dr. Bernadine Healy became the first woman to direct the National Institutes of Health.
In 1991, Dr. Bernadine Healy became the first woman to direct the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Van Hoosen was a founder of the American Medical Women’s Association and served as the organization’s first president.
Debi Thomas, M.D., grew up wanting to be a champion figure skater and a doctor, and she has succeeded as both. In 1988, she won the bronze Olympic medal and in 1997 she graduated from Northwestern University Medical School.
Andrea Goldsmith, PhD, is a pioneer in the field of wireless communications whose discoveries have influenced cellular and WiFi networks all over the world.
Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology under President Joe Biden.
Paleontologist with the US National Park Service
Pediatrician and the first African American woman medical director of a major hospital.
The first African American woman in the United States to become a neurosurgeon.
The first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
The first woman elected chair of the laboratory section of the American Public Health Association; isolated a strain of the diptheria bacillus that was used to develop an antitoxin for diphtheria.