Famous Women In Health And Medical History

Elizabeth Blackwell

Sep 10, 1849

First woman to get a medical degree in the U.S.

Florence Nightingale

Sep 10, 1860

Established a nursing school at St. Thomas's hospital in London. Because of this, the foundation of professional nursing was laid out.

Clara Barton

Sep 10, 1864

Appointed by Union General as the "lady in charge".

Dr Rebecca lee Crumpler

Sep 10, 1864

First African American woman to get an M.D. degree

Ann Preston

Sep 10, 1866

First woman Dean at the Women's medical college of Pennsylvania.

Sister Elizabeth Kenny

Sep 9, 1910

Promoted new way for a treatemnt (Poliomyelitis). Demonstrated Exercises for muscles instead of immoblization.

Maham CJ Walker

Sep 10, 1910

first female millionaire in america. Created Shampoo and Ointment with sulfer for scalp disease. In 1910 she established headquarters and built a factory.

Forence R. Sabin

Sep 10, 1917

First woman to become a full professor at a medical college

Alice Hamilton

Sep 10, 1919

Appointed assistant professor at Harvard, which made her the first woman to be part of the faculty.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sep 10, 1933

First "first lady" to hold her own press conference. During her time as a first lady, she visited relief projects and worked to help others.

Rosalind Franklin

Sep 10, 1951

Virginia Apgar MD

Sep 10, 1953

introduced Apgar test to asses the health of newborns.

Gertrude Belle Elion

Sep 10, 1954

Patented a lukemia fighting drug (6-mercaptopurine).

Helen B. Taussig

Sep 10, 1959

Awarded full professorship at John Hopkins University which made her one of the first woman at the school to hold such a rank.

Dr Frances Oldham Kelsey

Sep 10, 1960

hired by FDA in Washington D.C.

Patricia S Goldman

Sep 10, 1970

Lydia Villa Komoroff

Sep 10, 1975

3rd Mexican American woman to get doctorat ein sciences.

Nancy Wexler

Sep 10, 1976

Became part of the commision for the control of huntingtons disease.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Sep 10, 1977

Got the Nobel Prize in phsiology and medicene

Ruth Westheimer

Sep 10, 1980

Important sex therapist, an icon.

Jane Fonda

Sep 10, 1982

Released first workout video.

Barbara McClintock

Sep 10, 1983

won unshared nobel prize in medicene.

Sherry Torkle

Sep 10, 1984

Christiane Nusslein Volhard

Sep 10, 1985

became Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

Antonia Novello

Sep 10, 1986

Became the Deputy Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Wafaa El-Sadr

Sep 10, 1988

led Division of Infectious Diseases at the Harlem Hospital Center. helped develop HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis programs.

Nancy Dickey

Sep 10, 1997

President of American Medical Assos.

Elizabeth Gauld

Sep 10, 1999

discovered neurogenesis

Charlothe Ellertson

Sep 10, 2002

founded IBIS reproductive health.

Regina Benjamin

Sep 10, 2009

13th surgeon general of the U.S.

Michelle Obama

Sep 10, 2010

began first initiative in helping to decrease childhood obesity