Greta Beighton
Greta Beighton (1939–2017), English nurse and genetic researcher who co-developed the Beighton Score for joint hypermobility and contributed to clinical genetics in South Africa.
Tag Women in Medicine
Mary Holt
Mary Clayton Holt (1924-1993), English cardiologist. Holt-Oram syndrome (1960); pioneer in cardiac rehab and advocate for women in medicine.
Yvonne Barr
Yvonne Margaret (née Barr) Balding (1932 - 2016) was an Irish virologist. Co-discoverer of Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) (1964)
Cornelia de Lange
Cornelia Catharina de Lange (1871-1950) was a Dutch pediatrician. Described Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) in 1933
Yvonne Cossart
Australian virologist Yvonne Cossart (1934–2014), pioneer of parvovirus B19 research, teacher, and reformer of medical education.
Mary Walker
Mary Broadfoot Walker (1888 - 1974) was a Scottish physician. Mary Walker effect (1934); neostigmine and myasthenia gravis
Dorothy H. Andersen
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (1901–1963) was the first to describe cystic fibrosis, shaping paediatric pathology and breaking barriers for women in medicine.
Anna Williams
Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954), American bacteriologist and public health pioneer, advanced diphtheria treatment and women in medicine
Lotte Strauss
Lotte Strauss (1913–1985), pioneer in paediatric and perinatal pathology, co-described Churg–Strauss syndrome and helped found the Society for Pediatric Pathology
Augusta Klumpke
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859-1927) was an American neurologist. Klumpke palsy (1885). First woman in France to receive the title of ‘interne des hôpitaux’ and the first female President of the Societé de neurologie de Paris.
Hermann Adolph Wülfing-Lüer
Hermann Adolph Wülfing-Lüer (1836 – 1910) German Surgical instrument manufacturer. His wife Jeanne Amélie Lüer invented the original Lüer syringe in 1895
Margaret Dix
Margaret Dix (1911–1991), British neuro-otologist who co-developed the Dix–Hallpike test, reshaped diagnosis of vertigo and advanced vestibular science