Elizabeth Blackwell
Celebrating the septaquintaquinquecentennial of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. National Women Physicians Day is held on her birthday February 3rd
Tag Female Medical Pioneer
Ina Mae Gaskin
Ina Mae (née Middleton) Gaskin (1940 - ) American midwife. Gaskin (all-fours) manoeuvre 1976; The Farm
Sister Mary Joseph
Sister Mary Joseph (Julia Dempsey) (1856 - 1939) was an American Catholic nun, nurse, and hospital administrator. Sister Mary Joseph sign (1928)
Where are all the Women?
Hypothesis: Women are underrepresented in the realm of medical eponyms. Deep dive into eponymythology, and the roiling ocean of gender imbalance.
Florence R. Sabin
Florence Rena Sabin (1871-1953) American anatomist and medical researcher. Early description (1900) of Mees lines of the fingernails secondary to arsenic poisoning
Helene Ollendorff
Helene Ollendorff Curth (1899 - 1982) was a German-American dermatologist. Curth-Macklin syndrome (1954); Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome (1928)
Marie Colinet
Marie Colinet von Hilden (c1560 - c1640) was a Swiss midwife and surgeon. First recorded ophthalmic extraction of metal from a patients eye with a magnet (1624)
Lilly Dubowitz
Lilly Dubowitz (1930 - 2016) Hungarian-born British paediatrician. Dubowitz Score (1970); Dubowitz neurological examination (1980)
Priscilla White
Priscilla White (1900 - 1989) was an American physician. White Classification of Diabetes in Pregnancy (1949, 1965, 1978)
Nancy B. Esterly
Nancy Burton Esterly (1935 - 2017) was an American pediatric dermatologist. Esterly-McKusick syndrome (1971)
Pirkko Santavuori
Pirkko Santavuori (1933 - 2004) was a Finnish paediatric neurologist. Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (INCL) [Santavuori disease]
Julia Bell
Julia Bell (1879 - 1979) was an English human geneticist. Martin-Bell syndrome (1943) [Fragile X syndrome]