[Broken External Image]:https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/1...P3G6hrRQOzgozT1ShwObvAfeU77mtg4gzg-S_XSARvn7A Virginia Apgar, M.D. — Developed the Apgar Score, the standardized system to evaluate the health of babies when they are born. This was developed in 1952 before fetal monitors existed, and looked at the infant’s breathing, skin color, muscle tone, reflexes and pulse. She was also the first woman to earn the title of full Professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia. She specifically studied obstetrical anesthesia. [Broken External Image]:https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/O...4G4qTgGqetGIfRWc61Qbte8bF-IHzG3HRtUneg1iUOOew Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. – First female MD, graduated from New York’s Geneva Medical College in 1849. Interestingly, she was initially disgusted at the prospect of studying medicine, as the body and it’s processes freaked her out. But after a close friend died and told her that would have been spared her worst suffering had her physician been a woman, Blackwell went into medicine. [Broken External Image]:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/h...O_g4vrQ6ga3Xk389bXdJIY8dNdOhfOE0Ra4vRIrRfxCuA Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D. — First Female, African-American M.D. Graduated with a degree in 1864; after which time she moved to Virginia to take care of freed slaves who had no access to Medical Care. [Broken External Image]:https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/n...1r8-W3CQsllMWZcWW3ZS3KFX_MWanuohqwKffI_hO0SpA Selma Kaderman Dritz — Epidemiologist whose research uncovered the root cause of the then mysterious epidemic plaguing gay men in San Francisco in the 80s– which we now understand to be HIV/AIDs. Colleagues remember her saying, “We can’t let those kids die.” [Broken External Image]:https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/N...MyR7SDT2za0f4w9Jt3FPoa-43Q4OF8yjAARmRCNj0p5cg Gertrude Belle Elion — Chemist who developed Purinethol- the first major drug to fight leukemia, in addition to 45 other treatments to help the immune system fight cancer. She won a Nobel Prize in 1988. [Broken External Image]:https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/2...Qc5066cZJp-Ta-AZ0UorEoDtQOQQ_lehI_9bQowEfoCDg Rosalind Franklin — Her genetic research formed the basis for the discovery that Watson, Crick and Wilkins made regarding the double-helix model of DNA. She developed a method for defracting x-rays that allowed her to capture living organisms. She was able to then photograph and further evaluate DNA fibers. Wilkins showed these photographs to Watson and Crick (allegedly without her permission) and they were the inspiration for Watson’s concept of the double-helix structure. Although she died young and in obscurity and was never really appreciated for her efforts, she is now regarded as the initial investigator of DNA structure. [Broken External Image]:https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/B...dnIMaAToACIoJJdeKnDnqqC-Ssku8qiqi9VKRl8-_PWwQ Alice Hamilton — The first woman to be appointed to the faculty of Harvard — she was a pioneer in toxicology and her research was some of the first to look at occupational health and the risks of illness and injury as occupational hazards. [Broken External Image]:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/R...P09ZAI_RvzrGGyrOylCMZP8Vj1S3e9or6mTzSK5WVqzYw Jane Hodgson, M.D. — The only doctor ever convicted for performing an abortion. Her conviction was overturned after Roe. V. Wade. [Broken External Image]:https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/g...U7-9AxsD0s15mFTabvJ6CI1Prapxu3S9obFv4kwY-hvzQ Margaret Sanger — A young nurse in the lower east side of Manhattan, she cared for young women who suffered from botched abortions, she was the mastermind behind the first FDA approved oral contraceptive, Enovid, and started the precursor to Planned Parenthood. [Broken External Image]:https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/n...caZZmkZ1JhXcywCEtW11puY5HKfkVhA4lAj4gNrBA0QDQ Ruth Westheimer — Pioneering sexual psychotherapist. Great accent! Also, to escape the Holocaust she trained as an Israeli freedom fighter as a scout and sniper. She also popularized the phrase, “GET SOME!” Source
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