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Rupa Bai Furdoonji (also Firdounji or Faridounji) was an Indian Parsi doctor who was the world's first female anesthetist. [1] She practiced medicine in Hyderabad , and played a major role in introducing the use of chloroform as an anesthetic in India.
Mary Elizabeth Botsford (1865-1939) was one of the first physician anesthesiologists in the United States. She began practicing medicine in 1897 and was the chief anesthesiologist at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She is believed to be the first female anesthesiologist in the US and the first anesthesiologist in California. [1]
Claudia Potter (1881–1970) was an American anesthesiologist.Born near Denton, Texas and educated at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, she became the first woman anesthesiologist in the United States.
Isabella Herb (née Coler; November 6, 1863/1864 – May 28, 1943) was an American medical pioneer in the fields of pathology and anesthesiology. Her career spanned more than half a century, ending with her retirement in 1941. She was the first woman physician to specialize in anesthesiology, and the first Mayo Clinic specialist in her areas of ...
At first anesthesiologists hesitated to bring the ventilator into the operating theater unless necessary, but by the 1960s it became standard operating room equipment. [ 110 ] Sir Robert Macintosh (1897–1989) achieved significant advances in techniques for tracheal intubation when he introduced his new curved laryngoscope blade in 1943. [ 152 ]
Senior Lecturer in Anesthesiology at Kabale University Isabella Epiu is an anesthesiologist and critical care medicine specialist in Uganda , who is reported to be the first female anesthesiologist in the countries of the East African Community , to graduate with a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
This is a list of the first qualified female physician to practice in each country, where that is known. Many, if not all, countries have had female physicians since time immemorial; however, modern systems of qualification have often commenced as male only, whether de facto or de jure. This lists the first women physicians in modern countries.
The same year she gave birth to her first child and during the second year of her residency she became pregnant again. [1] After completing her residency in 1969, Calmes became a staff anesthesiologist and instructor in Pennsylvania until 1970, when she moved to California, which remains her current place of residence.