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
Tag Women in Medicine
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836 – 1917) was an English physician. The first openly female recipient of a UK medical qualification (1865)
Yvonne Barr
Yvonne Margaret (née Barr) Balding (1932 - 2016) was an Irish virologist. Co-discoverer of Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) (1964)
Madge Macklin
Madge Thurlow Macklin (1893 - 1962) was an American medical geneticist. Curth-Macklin syndrome (1954)
Anne P. Forbes
Anne Pappenheimer Forbes (1911 - 1992) was an American endocrinologist and physician. Forbes-Albright Syndrome 1954
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)
Elisabeth G. Kaveggia
Elisabeth Gathy Kaveggia (1926 - 2014) Hungarian born, American pediatrician and geneticist. Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome (1974) [FG syndrome]; Kaveggia syndrome (1975)
Ann C.M. Smith
Ann C. Morrison Smith American geneticist. Smith-Magenis syndrome (1986)