Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. She was the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon. She was the co-founder of the first hospital staffed by women, the first dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as Mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor and magistrate in Britain.
Elsie Maud Inglis was an innovative Scottish doctor, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals.
Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop, was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
James Marion Sims was an American physician and a pioneer in the field of surgery, known as the "father of modern gynecology". His most significant work was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula, a severe complication of obstructed childbirth. He is also remembered for inventing Sims' speculum, Sims' sigmoid catheter, and the Sims' position. However, "one would be hard pressed to find a more controversial figure in the history of medicine."
New York-Presbyterian / Lower Manhattan Hospital is a not-for-profit, acute care, teaching hospital in New York City and is the only hospital in Lower Manhattan south of Greenwich Village. It is part of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System and one of the main campuses of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
Susan Maria McKinney Steward was an American physician and author. She was the third African-American woman to earn a medical degree, and the first in New York state.
Drexel University College of Medicine is the medical school of Drexel University. The medical school has one of the nation's largest enrollments for a private medical school and represents the consolidation of two medical schools: the first US medical school for women and the nation's first college of homeopathy. Drexel University College of Medicine is ranked #83 in research by U.S. News & World Report and is the second most applied-to medical school in the United States.
Emily Dunning Barringer was the world's first female ambulance surgeon and the first woman to secure a surgical residency.
Dr. Esther Romania Bunnell Pratt Penrose was a leading figure in Latter-day Saint (LDS) and Utah culture during the late-19th-century and early-20th-century. She is widely known for being the first LDS woman to receive an MD degree and for being the first woman to be a medical doctor in the state of Utah.
Stella Churchill FRCS LRCP (1883–1954), was a British medical psychologist and psychotherapist who specialised in the health of women and children.
Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi was the first female physician to practice in Nigeria. She was also the first West African woman to earn a license of Royal Surgeon in Dublin. In 1938, Elizabeth Awoliyi became the second West African woman to qualify as an orthodox-medicine trained physician after Agnes Yewande Savage who graduated from medical school in 1929. She was the second president of the National Council of Women's Societies of Nigeria from 1964 until her death in 1971.
Anna Lukens was a 19th-century American physician who practiced and had leadership roles in hospitals and taught medicine. She was a vice-president of the New York Committee for the Prevention and State Regulation of Vice.
Mary Belle Brown, M.D. was a physician and surgeon, one of the few women in medicine of her time who practiced surgery.
Phoebe Jane Babcock Wait was an American physician.
Alice Stewart Ker or Alice Jane Shannan Ker MRCPI was a British physician, health educator, and suffragette. She was the 13th woman on the registry of the British Medical Association.
Sarah Dolley, was an American physician.
Mary Hannah Frances Ivens CBE, ChM, FRCOG was an obstetrician and gynaecologist who was the first woman appointed to a hospital consultant post in Liverpool. During the First World War she was chief medical officer at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont, northeast of Paris. For her services to the French forces she was awarded the Légion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre.
Sarah Jane McNutt, MD was a female physician in the United States, notable as the first woman inducted into the American Neurological Association. McNutt was a founder of the Babies' Hospital in New York City, now known as Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, along with her sister Dr. Julia G McNutt. Her mentors and co-workers Elizabeth Blackwell and Emily Blackwell were some of the first female physicians in the United States. She focused her work on pediatrics, neurology, and medical education.
Dossibai Rustomji Cowasji Patell MBE, later known as Dossibai Jehangir Ratenshaw Dadabhoy, was an Indian obstetrician and gynaecologist, who in 1910 became the first woman to become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS).
Elizabeth Avery Eggert (1848–1935) was a homeopathic physician, businesswoman and an activist who helped women in Oregon obtain the right to vote. She contributed to the nationwide reform of public health, philanthropy and suffrage for women during the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
