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Margaret Jessie Chung (Chinese: 張瑪珠, () October 2, 1889 – () January 5, 1959), born in Santa Barbara, California, was the first known American-born Chinese female physician.
American College of Physicians; American College of Preventive Medicine; American College of Radiology; American College of Surgeons; American Gastroenterological Association; American Medical Association. Massachusetts Medical Society; American Medical Women's Association; American Muslim Health Professionals; American Neuropsychiatric ...
May Edward Chinn (April 15, 1896 – December 1, 1980) was an American physician. She was the first African-American woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, now NYU School of Medicine, and the first African-American woman to intern at Harlem Hospital. In her private practice, she provided care for black patients who would not ...
Jean L. Harris in 1955 is the first African American woman to earn a medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia. [93] Jane Hinton in 1949 is one of the first of two African American women to become a doctor of veterinary medicine. [94] Lillian Holland Harvey was the Dean of the Tuskegee University School of Nursing for 30 years. [35]
Marie Equi (1872–1952) was an American doctor and activist for women's access to birth control and abortion. [95] Fannie Almara Quain (1874–1950) was the first woman born in North Dakota to earn a doctor of medicine degree. [96] Karola Maier Milobar (born 1876) became the first female physician to practice in Croatia in 1906. [93]
Black physicians make up only about 3% of American doctors. [2] Black physicians in particular have historically faced numerous obstacles to obtaining membership in the larger medical community. During the 20th century in the United States, groups such as the American Medical Association neglected black physicians and their pursuit of success ...
Myra Adele Logan (1908 - January 13, 1977) is known as the first African American female physician, surgeon, and anatomist to perform a successful open-heart surgery. . Following this accomplishment, Logan focused her work on children's heart surgery and was involved in the development of the antibiotic Aureomycin which treated bacterial, viral, and rickettsial diseases with the majority of ...
First African-American student to attend a racially mixed class in the Southern United States (1948) Edith Irby Jones (December 23, 1927 – July 15, 2019) was an American physician who was the first woman president of the National Medical Association and a founding member of the Association of Black Cardiologists .