Sister Mary Joseph
Sister Mary Joseph (Julia Dempsey) (1856 - 1939) was an American Catholic nun, nurse, and hospital administrator. Sister Mary Joseph sign (1928)
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Dorothy H. Andersen
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901 - 1963) was an American pediatrician and pathologist. Andersen disease (1956); Cystic fibrosis (1938)
Cicely Williams
Cicely Delphine Williams (1893–1992) was a highly influential Jamaican born, English paediatrician, nutritionist and child health advocate. Kwashiorkor (1933)
Ester Grönblad
Ester Elisabeth Groenblad (1898 - 1970) was a Swedish ophthalmologist. Grönblad-Strandberg syndrome in 1929
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 – 1910) was a British physician. In 1849, Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. National Women Physicians Day is held on her birthday February 3rd
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 – 1917) was an English physician. The first openly female recipient of a UK medical qualification (1865)
Gertrud Hurler
Gertrud Hurler (1889 - 1965) was an Austrian-German pediatrician. Hurler Syndrome (1919) - Mucopolysaccharidosis I (MPS I)
Elisabeth H. Winterhalter
Elisabeth Hermine Winterhalter (1856 - 1952) was a German gynecologist and surgeon. Pioneer physician; neuroanatomy researcher; leader of the feminist movement; and one of the first female surgeons in Germany
Monika Knickenberg
Monika Knickenberg is a German dermatopathologist. Hornstein-Knickenberg syndrome (HKS)(1975)
Georgina Hogg
Georgina Ruth Hogg (1916 - 2002) was a Canadian pathologist. Eponymously remembered for her work in describing the multiple benign skin tumors (fibrofolliculoma) of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome in 1977
Wilma Canada
Wilma Jeanne Canada Diner (1926 - 2017) was an American radiologist. Cronkhite–Canada syndrome (1955)
Myrtelle Canavan
Myrtelle May Canavan (1879 - 1953) was an American neuropathologist. Canavan disease (1931)