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.
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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.
Ann Trow Lohman
1800s British-American abortion provider
Sarah Tarleton Colvin
American nurse, author and National Women’s Party president
Georgina King
Georgina King was self-taught and developed an interest in geology. However, she propounded eccentric theories and was frustrated by lack of recognition by scientists and learned societies. The National Herbarium of Victoria holds almost 300 of King’s specimens.
Dr Martha May Eliot
Dr. Martha May Eliot was the first woman to be elected president of the American Public Health Association and the first woman to be awarded the American Public Health Association’s Sedgewick Memorial Medal.
Dr Ethel Collins Dunham
1957: Dr. Ethel Collins Dunham was the first woman pediatrician to receive the American Pediatric Society’s most prestigious award, the John Howland Medal.
Edith Buxbaum
Viennese-born psychoanalyst Edith Buxbaum wrote Your Child Makes Sense (1949) and Troubled Children in a Troubled World (1970).
Elaine Toms
Working in the field of nuclear physics, Toms put everything into career and the work that she did had value, most especially for the women who followed her.