Lisa Welander
Lisa Welander (1909 - 2001) was a Swedish neurologist. Sweden's first professor of neurology. Welander distal myopathy; Wohlfart-Kugelberg-Welander syndrome
Tag Women in Medicine
Edith Potter
Edith Louise Potter (1901 - 1993) was an American pediatric pathologist. Potter facies (1946); Potter syndrome; Potter syndrome; Potter sequence; and the Potter classification of polycystic kidney disease (1964)
Maud Menten
Maud Leonora Menten (1879 - 1960) was a Canadian pathologist, biochemical researcher and physician. Michaelis-Menten equation 1913
Margaret B. Horan
Margaret Burton (née Cleland) Horan (1909 - 2004) was an Australian paediatrician. Nance-Horan syndrome (1974)
Gabrielle Lévy
Gabrielle Charlotte Lévy (1886 - 1935) was a French neurologist and neuropathologist. Roussy-Lévy syndrome (1926); Lhermitte-Lévy syndrome (1931)
Gerty Cori
Gerty Theresa (née Radnitz) Cori (1896 - 1957) was a Czech-born American biochemist. Cori cycle (1929), Cori ester (1936), Nobel prize (1947)
Maria Dąbska
Maria Magdalena Dąbska (1921 - 2014) was a Polish pathologist. Dąbska tumor (1969) is the only cutaneous tumour named after a female pathologist.
Cato van Lohuizen
Cato H. J. van Lohuizen (1893 - 1937) was a Dutch pediatrician. Van Lohuizen syndrome (1922) [Cutis Marmorata Telangiectatica Congenita (CMTC)]
Dorothy Reed
Dorothy Mabel Reed Mendenhall (1874 - 1964) was an American physician, pediatrician and public health specialist. Reed-Sternberg cells (1902)
Mette Warburg
Mette Warburg (1926 - 2015) was a Danish ophthalmologist; leader in the fields of pediatric ophthalmology and ophthalmic genetics. Walker-Warburg syndrome (1971)
Ruth Wynne-Davies
Ruth Wynne-Davies (1926 – 2012) was an English orthopedic surgeon and geneticist. Wynne-Davies Criteria for Ligamentous Laxity (1970)
Maude Abbott
Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (1869 - 1940) was a Canadian physician, cardiologist and pathologist. Rokitansky-Maude Abbott syndrome (1924)