Margaret Caro
New Zealand dentist, Seventh-day Adventist and social reformer
New Zealand dentist, Seventh-day Adventist and social reformer
Nobel Prize winner Karikó’s research and perseverance proved that mRNA vaccines were possible and paved the way for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to end the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Irish nurse, centenarian and memoirist
Irish nurse and educator
Dr. King’s important discovery of the BRCA1 gene in 1990 transformed the medical world for breast cancer.
New Zealand midwife, community leader and writer
In 1988, Dr. Barbara J. McNeil was the founding head of the department of health care policy at Harvard Medical School.
1800s New Zealand farmer, midwife and shopkeeper
From her small-town beginnings, she eventually made her way to the nation’s capital, serving in a number of distinguished federal government positions at a time when few women held such posts.
Dr. Morani was the first woman surgical intern at St. James Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, the first woman surgical resident at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania and the first woman admitted to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons.