June is Pride month, and an opportunity to highlight the LGBTQ+ members of the STEM community.⠀ 🏳️🌈👩🏽⚕️ ️Dr. Edith Perez is a cancer specialist and internationally known translational researcher. Edith…
Category: #medmondays
#MedMondays with Sophia Jex-Blake
June is Pride month, and an opportunity to highlight the LGBTQ+ members of the STEM community.🏳️🌈 Sophia Jex-Blake (1840-1912) was an English physician, teacher, and feminist. Along with six other…
#National Nurses’ Day
Happy #NationalNursesDay, with a look at Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. 👩⚕️🏥 Clara Barton was passionate about helping others and spent most of her life in public…
Happy #nationaldoctorsday
👩🏽⚕️ An excellent occasion to honor Dr. May Edward Chinn 🔬 Dr. May Edward Chinn spent her career researching cancer, helping to develop the Pap smear and advocating for early…
#MedMondays celebrating Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee
👩🏾⚕️Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee was the first African-American woman to serve as dean of an American medical school. Barbara was born in Detroit and raised in a housing project, facing years…
#MedicineMonday honoring Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865 – 1915)
#MedicineMonday honoring Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865 – 1915) 🏥🔬 Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American woman to become a doctor in the United States. Susan was born…
#MedMondays
#medmondays – Only 34% of professionally active physicians in the United States are women. 👩⚕️👩🏻⚕️👩🏼⚕️👩🏽⚕️👩🏾⚕️👩🏿⚕️🔬 source: https://www.kff.org/…/state-indicator/physicians-by-gender/… 👩⚕️👩🏻⚕️👩🏼⚕️👩🏽⚕️👩🏾⚕️👩🏿⚕️🔬
#MedicineMonday with Elizabeth Blackburn
#MedicineMonday with Elizabeth Blackburn 🔬 Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn currently serves as the first female president of the Salk Institute. As one of only 12 women to have won a Nobel Prize…
#MedMonday – Razan al-Najjar
#MedMonday honoring Razan al-Najjar (1997-2018) 👩🏽⚕️🔬 Razan al-Najjar was an emergency medical aid worker volunteering at weekly protests along the fence dividing the Gaza Strip from Israel to care for wounded…