Women in Medicine

By Sydnee719
  • Elizabeth Blackwell

    Elizabeth Blackwell

    The first women to earn a medical degree. Blackwell graduated from Geneva college in New York.
  • Rita Lobato

    Rita Lobato

    First woman to study medicine in Brazil. Women were not allowed to attend medical school in Brazil until 1879.
  • Yoshioka Yayoi

    Yoshioka Yayoi

    Founded the first medical school for women in Japan after being one of the first to receive a medical degree.
  • Susan Gyankorama De-Graft Johnson

    Susan Gyankorama De-Graft Johnson

    First woman to qualify as a physician in Ghana. She was a Diplomate of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology and the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health.
  • Henrietta Lacks

    Henrietta Lacks

    Without her knowledge, cells from Henrietta's cervix were removed and biopsied, giving them the name "HeLa." These cells were later used to develop a polo vaccine.
  • Pearl Dunlevy

    Pearl Dunlevy

    First woman president of the Biological Society of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
  • Patricia Bath

    Patricia Bath

    Invented the laseropharco probe allowing safer, less painful removal of cataracts.
  • Jerri Lin Nielsen

    Jerri Lin Nielsen

    While stationed in the South Pole, Nielsen developed breast cancer and operated on herself to extract tissue samples for analysis.
  • Fiona Wood

    Fiona Wood

    Pioneered spray-on-skin used after the bombings in Bali.
  • Esther Apuahe

    Esther Apuahe

    First female surgeon (neurosurgeon) in Papua New Guinea.