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Women in Medical Field

Women in Medical Field. Group 2 :The Innovators. Leader: Dmitry Banov Asgedom Asmelash Kevin Manochehri Michelle Sandov Brendan Wang. Elizabeth Blackwell. The faculty of Geneva Medical College had put the decision of her acceptance to student vote.

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Women in Medical Field

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  1. Women in Medical Field Group 2 :The Innovators Leader: Dmitry Banov AsgedomAsmelash Kevin Manochehri Michelle Sandov Brendan Wang

  2. Elizabeth Blackwell • The faculty of Geneva Medical College had put the decision of her acceptance to student vote. • First woman in the U.S. to graduate with a medical degree in 1849 • Elizabeth Blackwell was banned from practice in most hospitals. • Eye infection lead to an eye removal. • She had to give up her dream of becoming a surgeon. • Founded an infirmary with her sister. • In 1869 Blackwell opened Women’s Medical College • co-founded London School of Medicine for Women and accepted a chair in gynecology. • Open a training school for nurses in the U.S. in 1873. Dmitry Banov

  3. Mary Edwards Walker • First female surgeon in the U.S. • Second medical school graduate after Elizabeth Blackwell. • Went to practice with her husband Albert Miller. • Practice was stopped - she refused to change her last name and practice as a woman. • In 1863 - First surgeon for the U.S. army • First and only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1865. • 1917 - the congress took it away because she was not in the front lines. • In 1977 Jimmy Carter reinstated it. Dmitry Banov

  4. Dr. Diana FarmerThe world's first female fetal surgeon and the second American woman to be inducted into the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons of England “When Iwas young and planning my career, Iwas, probably too naive to worry that being a woman might hold me back. In medical school, other people noticed that I was the only woman in classes - it just wasn't something I paid attention to. "It never occurred to me I couldn't do everything I wanted to do” Kevin Manocheri

  5. Education & Residencies: Wellesley College, B.A., Biology , University of Washington School of Medicine, M.D, Resident, General Surgery, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Resident, Senior Resident, Chief Resident, General Surgery. Award & Achievements: recognized expertise in complex surgical repair of thoracic, airway, and intestinal anomalies as well as for cancer surgery in neonatal, pediatric, and adolescent patients, only the second US female surgeon –in- chief. Professor of Clinical Surgery, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Division Chief of Pediatric Surgery, aVice-Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. Honored at UCSF : Holy Smith Award Outstanding Women Faculty Chancellor's Recognition Department of Surgery's Excellence in Teaching Award.. Kevin Manocheri

  6. Nina Starr Braunald “The "mommy track" was never an option for a woman trying to make a place for herself in what in the early 1960s was exclusively a man’s world (Surg 2).” First female Cardiac surgeon who was also a wife and mother of three daughters She developed the first Mitral valve replacement at the age of 32 (1960). She designed a cloth-covered mechanical valve Also known as: The “Braunwald-Cutter valve” Drs. Nina Braunwald (on the left side) performing heart valve surgery. “The pioneering work done at the Clinical Center in the 1960s on designing and replacing damaged heart valves led to advances in many areas of biomedical research.” From Flikr Mihelle Sandov

  7. All thanks to the: Association of Women Surgeons Women are succeeding! Female Surgeons are not all young, white, and childless Today there are more diverse female Surgeons Mihelle Sandov

  8. Joycelyn Elders AsgedomAsmelash

  9. Arkansas DOH Director and U.S. Surgeon General • As a director of Arkansas Department of Health: • Teenage birth reduced from 13% to 1% • Built clinics and expanded sex education • Married and has led normal life besides the extraordinary activities • As a Surgeon General: • Campaigned Contraceptives and condoms • Fought for the practice of abortion, contraceptives and sex education. • Fight HIV AsgedomAsmelash

  10. Dr. Fannie AlmaraQuain Brendan Wang

  11. Organizations/Positions Brendan Wang

  12. Works Cited • http://pedsurg.ucsf.edu. • http://www.marinmagazine.com/ • Elders, M. Joycelyn, and David Chanoff. Joycelyn Elders, M.D. New York: Morrow,

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