Dr Helen Brooke Taussig
Dr. Helen Taussig was the first woman to become the president of the American Heart Association.
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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.
Mirka Miller
Mathematician and computer scientist focused on graph theory and combinatorial algorithms, and databases and data security. She published over 200 papers including significant articles on aspects of graph theory and algorithms such as the Train Marshalling Problem.
Dr Connie Guion
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.
Dr Dorothy Hansine Anderson
Dr. Andersen was the first to recognize cystic fibrosis as a disease and helped create a test to diagnose it in 1938.
Dr Dorothy Reed Mendenhall
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).
Dr Doris Gorka Bartuska
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.
Joan Freeman
Joan Freeman began her career at CSIR Radiophysics Laboratory during World War II, working on the production of a 10cm microwave radar set. She spent most of her working life at the British Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell.
Dr Joanne Harley Lynn
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.
Dr Carolyn Robinowitz
Dr. Carolyn Robinowitz was the founding director of the American Psychiatric Office of Education in 1976 and the first woman psychiatrist elected to the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1979.