Discover the many ways that women have influenced and enhanced the practice of medicine at the National Library of Medicine online exhibit 'Celebrating America's Women Physicians'

Mary Stuart Fisher, M.D.
Learn about Mary Fisher, MD, a woman of "firsts." Dr. Fisher was first in her Binghamton, New York high school class, first in her class at Bryn Mawr College, and first in her class at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She was the first woman president of the Philadelphia Roentgen Ray Society (the oldest radiological society in the world), and the first woman physician to have her portrait commissioned and hung at Temple University Medical School. She spent 50 years teaching diagnostic radiology to generations of Philadelphia medical students and residents. She received the AAWR Marie Curie Award in 1992.

  Elizabeth Blackwell, MD
  Learn about the first woman to graduate from a US medical school,
 Cofounder of the New York Infirmary and Children and the New York
 Women's Medical College

Learn about Edith Quimby, PhD -
her work provided the first practical guidelines to physicians using radiation therapy, she was the first to establish the levels of radiation that the human body could tolerate, and was the first female radiophysicist to be appointed as president of the American Radium Society. She received ACR Gold Medal in 1963.




Learn about Alice Ettinger, MD -
a radiologist and educator who brought the technique of spot-film imaging to the United States in 1932, she was the first chairwoman of radiology at Tufts University School of Medicine. Then in 1982, Dr. Ettinger received an RSNA Gold Medal and in 1984 ACR Gold Medal.
For more information...
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_105.html

Learn about Rosalyn Yalow, PhD -
Rosalyn Yalow, PhD - recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1977, for the development of radioimmunoassay of peptide hormones. She received
ACR Gold Medal in 1993 and the RSNA Gold Medal in 1994.

Learn about Lucy Frank Squire, MD
Lucy Frank Squire, MD, was the first woman to be enrolled as a resident in Massachusetts General Hospital's radiology program in 1940 and the first woman radiologist to receive the AAWR Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award in 1986. Dr. Squire was an outstanding radiologist who became known as a medical educator and mentor to generations of students at the State University of New York (SUNY) Health Science Center. In 1964, Dr. Squires published the first edition of her landmark book Fundamentals of Radiology which has become a standard introductory text for radiology. Dr. Squire received the Gold Medal of the RSNA in 1972. Dr. Squires passed away in 1996, but her teaching enthusiasm and spirit are maintained in the revised version of her classic radiology text. Learn more about Dr. Squire at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_307.html

The AAWR Lucy Frank Squire Distinguished Resident Award in Diagnostic
Radiology is given yearly to a resident who has demonstrated outstanding
contributions in clinical care, teaching, research, or public service.