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Lavinia Loughridge
1930 - 2014 (84 years)
Lavinia Winifred Loughridge was a Northern Irish physician who specialised in nephrology. She was one of the pioneers of kidney transplantation, working with Sir Roy Yorke Calne on Britain's first transplantation programme to use cadaveric kidneys.
Go to ProfileSarah Blagden is a Professor of Experimental Oncology at the University of Oxford. Her laboratory research is in investigating post-transcriptional mechanisms for ovarian cancer behavior. Her clinical research is in conducting early phase trials in novel cancer therapeutics for people with advanced malignancies.
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Roselyn P. Epps
1930 - 2014 (84 years)
Roselyn Elizabeth Payne Epps was an American pediatrician and public health physician. She was the first African American president of the American Medical Women's Association and wrote more than 90 professional articles. She died on September 29, 2014.
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Sigrid Quack
1958 - Present (66 years)
Sigrid Quack is a German social scientist working in the field of comparative sociology. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, where she is the Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, and was a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.
Go to ProfilePetra Klinge is a neurosurgeon and academic. She is professor of neurosurgery at Brown University. Education and training Klinge earned her medical degree from the University of Kiel in 1993. She conducted her neurosurgical residency at Hannover Medical School in Germany, completing it in 2002. The same year, she earned her habilitation and postdoctoral qualification "venia legendi".
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Joan Venes
1935 - 2010 (75 years)
Joan Venes was a neurosurgeon. She helped to develop the practice of neurosurgery in children. Early life Venes was born on June 27, 1935. She was raised in a blue-collar neighborhood in Queens, New York. She was a first-generation American and the first person in her neighborhood to go to college.
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Anne-Françoise Schmid
1949 - Present (75 years)
Anne-Françoise Schmid is a Swiss-born French philosopher, formerly an associate researcher of Mines Paris-Tech. Schmid is a specialist in the philosophical works of Henri Poincaré, as well as being an associate researcher at the Henri Poincaré archives. Schmid has also edited the letters of correspondence between Bertrand Russell and Louis Couturat. She is also a founding member of a philosophical research initiative known as non-philosophy, alongside her spouse François Laruelle. Through this work, she has been publishing on generic epistemologies, which entails a non-exclusive epistemologic...
Go to ProfileNeelam K. Giri is an Indian pediatric hematologist/oncologist and physician-scientist who researches bone marrow failure syndromes. She is a staff clinician in the clinical genetics branch at the National Cancer Institute.
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Helmi Järviluoma
1960 - Present (64 years)
Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä is a Finnish sound, music, and cultural scholar and writer. She is a Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Eastern Finland. As sensory and soundscape ethnographer, Järviluoma has developed the mobile method of sensobiographic walking. Her research and art spans the fields of sensory remembering, qualitative methodology , environmental cultural studies, sound art and fiction writing. Helmi Järviluoma was married to Finnish writer Matti Mäkelä .[in Finnish]
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Lisa Jackson Pulver
1959 - Present (65 years)
Lisa Rae Jackson Pulver is an Aboriginal Australian epidemiologist and researcher in the area of Aboriginal health who has been Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Sydney since October 2018.
Go to ProfileNadia Badawi AM is a medical researcher and an expert on newborn encephalopathy and cerebral palsy. She is the Chair of Cerebral Palsy at the University of Sydney. Life Badawi grew up in Egypt and trained in paediatrics and neonatology there. She later moved to Dublin, Ireland, and arrived in Australia in 1992 to work with Fiona Stanley at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth. Enrolling at the University of Western Australia, and with Stanley as her supervisor, Badawi worked on a research project for her Ph.D, completing it in 1998. The research, into newborn encephalopathy, remains unique in the world.
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Sheryl Sandberg
1969 - Present (55 years)
Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American technology executive, philanthropist, and writer. Sandberg served as chief operating officer of Meta Platforms, a position from which she stepped down in August 2022. She is also the founder of LeanIn.Org. In 2008, she was made COO at Facebook, becoming the company's second-highest ranking official. In June 2012, she was elected to Facebook's board of directors, becoming the first woman to serve on its board. As head of the company's advertising business, Sandberg was credited for making the company profitable. Prior to joining Facebook as its COO, Sandber...
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Lynne Brindley
1950 - Present (74 years)
Dame Lynne Janie Brindley, is the former Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, a post she held until June 2020. Prior to this appointment she was a professional librarian, and served as the first female chief executive of the British Library, the United Kingdom's national library, from July 2000 to July 2012 and was founding chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition. She is also a member of the Ofcom board.
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Judith Palfrey
1945 - Present (79 years)
Judith Palfrey is the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the author of Community Child Health: An Action Plan for Today and Child Health In America: Making A Difference Through Advocacy , and co-editor of Global Child Health Advocacy and the Disney Encyclopedia of Baby and Childcare . She is also the former Faculty Dean of Adams House at Harvard University along with her husband Sean Palfrey who is also a pediatrician in Boston.
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Andrea Hayes-Jordan
1965 - Present (59 years)
Andrea A. Hayes Dixon is an American surgeon. She was the first pediatric surgeon to perform a high-risk, life-saving procedure in children with a rare form of cancer and developed the first orthotropic xenograft model of metastatic Ewing's sarcoma. In 2002, she became the first African American female pediatric surgeon board-certified in the United States.
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Jo-Anne H. Young
2000 - Present (24 years)
Jo-Anne H. Young is an American physician, scientist, and Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Microbiology Reviews, published by the American Society for Microbiology. Her expertise is in the areas of transplantation, infectious diseases, infections of the immune compromised host, and clinical mycology and virology.
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Kate Cavanagh
1951 - 2008 (57 years)
For those of a similar name, see Kate Kavanagh Catherine Cavanagh was a social worker, social science researcher and activist. She worked in the fields of domestic violence, child abuse and rape, with the aim of understanding extreme forms of violence in order to develop prevention strategies.
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Lena Horne
1917 - 2010 (93 years)
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years, appearing in film, television, and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood.
Go to ProfileTawanna Dillahunt is an American computer scientist and information scientist based at the University of Michigan School of Information. She runs the Social Innovations Group, a research group that designs, builds, and enhances technologies to solve real-world problems. Her research has been cited over 2,700 times according to Google Scholar.
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Ingeborg Rapoport
1912 - 2017 (105 years)
Ingeborg Rapoport was a German pediatrician who was a prominent figure in East German medicine and, at age 102, the oldest person to receive a Doctorate degree. Rapoport studied medicine in Hamburg in Nazi Germany, but was denied a medical degree because her mother was of Jewish ancestry. She fled Nazi persecution and emigrated to the United States in 1938, where she completed her education in medicine. In the early 1950s, as a result of an investigation of her and her husband for un-American activities, she left the United States and eventually, after staying in Vienna for a year, moved to the German Democratic Republic .
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Sabrina Kitaka
1972 - Present (52 years)
Sabrina Bakeera Kitaka , commonly known as Sabrina Kitaka, is a Ugandan physician, pediatrician, pediatric infectious diseases specialist and academic, who serves as a senior lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics at Makerere University School of Medicine.
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Neera K. Badhwar
1946 - Present (78 years)
Neera K. Badhwar is an Indian philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. She is known for her works on ethics and political philosophy. Books Friendship: A Philosophical Reader .Is Virtue Only A Means to Happiness? , 2nd edition .Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life .
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Claire McLintock
1965 - 2022 (57 years)
Marie Claire McLintock was a New Zealand haematologist and obstetric physician. She was an expert in medical conditions and disorders related to bleeding and blood clotting, and medical problems associated with pregnancy.
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Joy Wolfram
1989 - Present (35 years)
Joy Wolfram is a Finnish nanoscientist. She is known for her pioneering work in nanomedicine concerning the treatment of cancer, cardiovascular diseases and other life-threatening illnesses. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, in the school of Chemical Engineering and the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology. She was the forefront of the Extracellular Vesicles and Nanomedicine laboratory at Mayo Clinic. She is also an affiliate faculty member at Houston Methodist Hospital's Department of Nanomedecine. Wolfram sits as a scientific advisor and a...
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Isabella Akyinbah Quakyi
Isabella Akyinbah Quakyi is a Ghanaian academic. She is a professor of Immunology and Parasitology at the University of Ghana and the Foundation Dean of the University of Ghana School of Public Health. She is also a researcher in the field of medicine and a health practitioner. She is a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. Professor Quakyi was recognized by Newsweek magazine as one of “seven women scientists who defied the odds and changed science forever”.
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Joan Straumanis
1937 - Present (87 years)
Joan Straumanis is an academic administrator, philosopher, second-wave feminist, mathematician, civil libertarian, public speaker, and American pioneer in women's studies. She co-created the first women's studies program outside a public university, and served as president of both Antioch College and the Metropolitan College of New York and as academic dean at other institutions.
Go to ProfileJoan Nybell Kaderavek is an American Speech-Language Pathologist, currently a retired Distinguished Professor at University of Toledo. She has published the book "Language Disorders in Children: Fundamental Concepts of Assessment and Intervention."
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Christine Kreuder Johnson
Christine Kreuder Johnson is an American epidemiologist and veterinary scientist who is Professor and Director of the EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics at the One Health Institute. She serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Ecosystem Health at the University of California, Davis. She was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
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Eva Steiness
1941 - Present (83 years)
Eva Steiness née Uhl is a Danish physician, former university professor and businessperson who has been active in Scandinavia's pharmaceutical industry since the late 1990s. She is currently CEO of Serodus ASA, a biomedical company based in Oslo which develops drugs for the treatment of diabetes. In 1982, Steiness became the first women to be appointed dean of Copenhagen University's faculty of medicine and in 1985, she became the first women in Denmark to become a full professor in the medical field with her appointment at Aarhus University.
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Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
1960 - Present (64 years)
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an experimental filmmaker, artist and author. She is Willa Cather Professor Emerita in Film Studies. Her work has focused on gender, race, ecofeminism, queer sexuality, eco-theory, and class studies. From 1999 through the end of 2014, she was co-editor along with Wheeler Winston Dixon of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. In 2016, she was named Willa Cather Endowed Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and took early retirement in 2020.
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Salem Mekuria
1947 - Present (77 years)
Salem Mekuria is an Ethiopian-born independent filmmaker, video artist and educator living in the United States. Life and work Mekuria was born in Addis Ababa. She was educated there and in Axum, and moved to the United States in 1967 where she studied political science and journalism at Macalester College. Mekuria earned a MA in education technology and media production from San Francisco State University in 1978. She later worked at the WGBH TV station in Boston, starting as a secretary but eventually becoming a producer for the Nova series. Mekuria is the Luella LaMer Professor of Women's...
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Jocelyne Bloch
1971 - Present (53 years)
Jocelyne Bloch is a Swiss neuroscientist and a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital and at EPFL . Life Bloch graduated in the Faculty of Medicine of Lausanne University in December 1994 and she obtained her neurosurgical degree in 2002. Her area of expertise is deep brain stimulation and brain repair in relation to movement disorders. In collaboration with EPFL, she is currently leading a clinical feasibility study that evaluates the therapeutic potential of this spinal cord stimulation technology, without a brain implant, to improve the walking ability in people with partial spinal c...
Go to ProfileShubhra Gupta is an Indian film critic, writer and columnist for The Indian Express from New Delhi, India. She received the Ramnath Goenka Award for Best Writing on Cinema in 2012. She was a member of the Central Board of Film Certification from 2012 to 2015. She is the author of 50 Films That Changed Bollywood, 1995-2015.
Go to ProfileBonnie Brinton is a speech language pathologist, a professor at Brigham Young University , and from 1999 to 2009 was dean of the BYU graduate school. Prior to joining the BYU faculty, Brinton was on the faculty of the University of Kansas and the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
Go to ProfileThea L. James is an American emergency medical physician as well as an Associate Professor, Associate Chief Medical Officer, and Vice President of the Mission at the Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Kristin Carson-Chahhoud
Kristin Carson-Chahhoud is an Associate Professor at the University of South Australia, heading a research group in the Adelaide Medical School. Specialising in respiratory medicine, tobacco control and management of tobacco-related illnesses, Carson aims to close the gap between clinical research trials and real-world patient care.
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M. Gail Hamner
1963 - Present (61 years)
M. Gail Hamner is an American scholar, author, and a professor at Syracuse University. Hamner is a Professor of Religion, while also an affiliate in the Faculty of Women and Gender Studies and Film and Screen Studies. She is the author of American Pragmatism: A Religious Genealogy.
Go to ProfileSherine O. Obare is the dean of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. She works on nanomaterials for sensing and drug delivery.
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M. V. Padma Srivastava
1965 - Present (59 years)
Madakasira Vasantha Padma Srivastava is an Indian neurologist, medical academic and writer, and the professor of neurology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. She is known for pioneering Acute Stroke Programme , a medical initiative for supporting patients afflicted with epilepsy and stroke, incorporating Hyperacute Reperfusion strategies including the thrombolysis program. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for her contributions to medical science.
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Irene Vélez Torres
1982 - Present (42 years)
Irene Vélez Torres is a Colombian philosopher and doctor in political geography. Since August 11, 2022 to July 19, 2023, she has held the position of Minister of Mines and Energy. Early life Irene Vélez is the daughter of Hildebrando Vélez, an environmentalist and educator recognized for his activism in the Black Communities Process through which he became very close to Francia Márquez. Vélez Torres studied philosophy at the National University, and a master's degree in cultural studies at the same university. She completed a doctorate in political geography at the University of Copenhagen in...
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Holly Willis
1950 - Present (74 years)
Holly Willis is a Professor and Chair of the Media Arts and Practice division in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Previously, she served as Associate Dean of Research and Founding Chair of Media Arts and Practice, as well as Director of Academic Programs at USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy. She is former editor of the magazines RES and Filmmaker, of which she is a co-founder. Willis was also the co-curator of the international digital media festival RESFest.
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Ivana Rentsch
1974 - Present (50 years)
Ivana Rentsch is a Swiss musicologist and teacher at the University of Hamburg. Life Born in Olten, Rentsch studied musicology, media and linguistics at the University of Zürich. From 2000, she spent five years as a research assistant at the Musicological Institute of the University of Bern. In 2004 she received her doctorate with her thesis on Bohuslav Martinů's operas of the interwar period. In 2005 she was granted a research scholarship at the Austrian universities of Graz and Salzburg for the project Dance in Score .
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Françoise Blime-Dutertre
1939 - 2016 (77 years)
Françoise Blime was a French philosopher. She was a disciple of Raymond Aron and a lifelong admirer of Levi-Strauss’ s structural anthropology, Françoise Blime was one of the few French students to have been accepted in the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship at Brandeis University, where she was trained along some of the leading thinkers behind the US social revolution of the late 1960s such as Angela Davis. Back in France, she worked relentlessly to elaborate and apply new paradigms in the French state educational systems, initially by the insertion of institutional psychopedagogy in t...
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Heather McRobie
1985 - Present (39 years)
Heather Katharine McRobie, also known professionally as Heather Allansdottir, is a British-Australian writer and academic. Biography She studied Modern History and Politics at Oxford University before going on to pursue further studies at the University of Sarajevo and McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her move from Oxford to Montreal, aged 22, was allegedly inspired by her love of the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.
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Jill Macleod Clark
1944 - Present (80 years)
Professor Dame Jill Macleod Clark, DBE, RGN, FRCN has held key leadership roles in Nursing and Health care and was Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences University of Southampton. She is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Southampton and holds Visiting Professor positions in the UK, Canada and Australia.
Go to ProfileChelsea Camille Pinnix is an American oncologist who is an Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Director of the Residency Program at the MD Anderson Cancer Center . Having joined the faculty 2012, her research looks to improve the outcomes of patients who suffer from lymphoma.
Go to ProfileDarlene Dixon is an American veterinary scientist and toxicologic pathologist researching the pathogenesis/carcinogenesis of tumors affecting the reproductive tract of rodents and humans and assessing the role of environmental and endogenous hormonal factors in the growth of these tumors. She is a senior investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Go to ProfileOphira Michal Ginsburg is a Canadian oncologist. Early life and education Ginsburg was born and raised in Canada, where she completed her undergraduate degree and medical degree. Ginsburg attended Queen's University at Kingston for her Bachelor of Science degree before enrolling at McGill University for her Master of Science degree in human genetics. Ginsburg eventually returned to Queen's for her medical degree before accepting a residency and fellowship at the University of Toronto .
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Anna Luise Kirkengen
1946 - Present (78 years)
Anna Luise Kirkengen is a Norwegian physician and researcher. She is a professor of public health at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Born and trained in Germany, she has been a general practitioner in Oslo for over 30 years, being the only female GP in her district. Her PhD thesis studied health problems in adulthood associated with childhood sexual abuse which she has authored into a book entitled Inscribed Bodies: Health Impact of Child Sexual Abuse.
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