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Carolina Scotto
1958 - Present (66 years)
Silvia Carolina Scotto is an Argentinian history professor, with degrees in philosophy and politics. In 2007, she became the first woman to take over as rector of the National University of Córdoba, in an institution that is more than 400 years old. In 2013, she was elected a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Front for Victory in the Córdoba Province. On 6 August 2014, she resigned for "strictly personal reasons".
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Lisette Burrows
1963 - Present (61 years)
Lisette C. Burrows is a New Zealand physical education academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Waikato. Academic career After a 1999 PhD from the University of Wollongong titled 'Developmental discourses in school physical education,' Burrows worked at the University of Otago from 1991, rising to full professor in 2015 before moving to the University of Waikato in 2017.
Go to ProfileMiranda J. Lubbers is a Dutch social scientist specializing in the analysis of migration, segregation, and social identity through personal networks. She is Professor in Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and director of the COALESCE Lab.
Go to ProfileSusan Durham is an American Board Certified Neurosurgeon and a Member of The Society of Neurological Surgeons. A professor of neurosurgery at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, she is also Division Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
Go to ProfileLouise Maple-Brown is an Australian endocrinologist. She is a clinical researcher at the Royal Darwin Hospital , serving as the hospital's Head of Endocrinology and as NHMRC Practitioner Fellow with the Menzies School of Health Research at Charles Darwin University. She leads a clinical research program within the Wellbeing and Preventable Chronic Diseases division of Menzies with a focus on diabetes in Indigenous Australians and provides clinical diabetes services to urban and remote Northern Territory communities.
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Henrietta M. Smith
1922 - 2021 (99 years)
Henrietta M. Smith was an American academic, librarian, and storyteller, who edited four editions of the Coretta Scott King Award collection published by the American Library Association. In 2008, she was honored with the Association for Library Service to Children Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes significant contributions to library service to children and ALSC. She is also the recipient of the 2011 Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement for her body of work as a significant and lasting literary contribution. She was honored during the 2014 Carle H...
Go to ProfileCatharine Isobel Whiteside, CM, FRCPC, FCAHS is a Canadian physician and medical researcher. She is Director, Strategic Partnerships of Diabetes Action Canada and Chair of the board of the Banting Research Foundation. Whiteside is the former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
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Maria Aloni
1969 - Present (55 years)
Maria D. Aloni is an Italian logician and philosopher of language, interested in formal semantics and the development of forms of logic that can capture the deviations of human reasoning from classical logic. She is an associate professor in the University of Amsterdam Faculty of Humanities, affiliated there with the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation.
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Mary Fowkes
1954 - 2020 (66 years)
Mary Fowkes was an American physician and neuropathologist. She is noted for her early autopsies of COVID-19 victims that significantly contributed to the identification of long-term effects of the novel coronavirus. Her findings that victims had suffered multiple organ failures resulted in the recommendation for use of blood thinners as a part of the treatment process.
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Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
1949 - Present (75 years)
Ilora Gillian Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, FRCP, FRCGP, FLSW, FMedSci is a Welsh doctor, professor of palliative medicine, and a Crossbench member of the House of Lords. Born the only daughter of Professor Charles Beaumont Benoy Downman, Ilora married Andrew Yule Finlay in 1972, with whom she has two children.
Go to ProfileSophie Marie Jeanne Nowicki, is Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Geology of the University at Buffalo. She does research on the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, focusing on their connections to global climate and sea level. Before that, she was physical scientist at the Nasa Goddard Space Flight Centre, investigating ice sheet changes.
Go to ProfileRotonya McCants Carr is an American hepatologist and physician-scientist who the function of lipid metabolites and lipid droplet proteins in relation to hepatic insulin signaling. She is the Cyrus E. Rubin Chair and division head of gastroenterology at the University of Washington.
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Sharon Fonn
1958 - Present (66 years)
Sharon Fonn is a South African Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her work has focused on cervical cancer, health systems and developing African capacity for public health research.
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Hilda Bastian
2000 - Present (24 years)
Hilda Bastian is a health consumer advocate. Starting in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s and moving to Europe and the USA, she is involved in evidence-based medicine and communicating medical science to the public.
Go to ProfileNancy Rachel November is a New Zealand academic, and is professor of musicology at the University of Auckland, specialising in late 18th- and 19th-century chamber music. Academic career After a BSc in mathematics in 1994 and a Bachelor of Music with honours in musicology a year later, both from Victoria University of Wellington, November travelled to Cornell University to complete an MA in 1999 and a 2003 PhD titled Haydn's vocality and the ideal of “true” string quartets. November studied baroque violin with Peter Walls and received instruction from the New Zealand String Quartet. November m...
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Linda Laubenstein
1947 - 1992 (45 years)
Linda Jane Laubenstein was an American physician and early HIV/AIDS researcher. She was among the first doctors in the United States to recognize the AIDS epidemic of the early 1980s; she co-authored the first article linking AIDS with Kaposi's sarcoma.
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Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Esther MacCallum-Stewart is a British author and academic on games and sex, sexuality and gender in gaming as well as on the narrative of games. Biography Esther MacCallum-Stewart attended the University of Sussex where she completed her degrees from BA to doctorate. Though her doctorate thesis was on Popular Culture and the First World War MacCallum-Stewart has gone on to become the Associate Professor of Game Studies at Staffordshire University. MacCallum-Stewart researches how narratives in games are understood by the player as well as publishing articles on sex, sexuality, and gender in games.
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Priscilla Kincaid-Smith
1926 - 2015 (89 years)
Priscilla Sheath Kincaid-Smith, Mrs. Fairley, AC, CBE , was an Australia-based South African physician and researcher, specializing in nephrology. She was a past President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians , World Medical Association and International Society of Nephrology .
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Arlene Dávila
1965 - Present (59 years)
Arlene Dávila is an American professor of Latino/a Studies. She has contributed to the field of Latino/a Studies as both an author and professor. She is the founding director of The Latinx Project, and has written eight books and many articles on issues ranging from depictions of public images of Latinos, marketing to Latinos, cultural politics in Puerto Rico, and Latinization of the United States. Her research focuses on race and ethnicity, media studies, and Puerto Rican national identities. She is a professor at New York University.
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Dora Mbanya
1956 - Present (68 years)
Dora Ngum Shu Mbanya is a Cameroonian Professor of Haematology at the University of Yaoundé I and the head of the Cameroon branch of Africa Society for Women and Aids in Africa. Biography Dora Mbanya was born on 13 December 1956 in the North West region of Cameroon. She is a physician and specialises in haematology. She obtained a medical degree in General Medicine from cameroon and bagged her PhD in Medicine/Haematology from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. She holds a Dîplome Universitaire in Transfusion Medicine from the Université d’Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She is also the General Manager o...
Go to ProfileRebecca Hasson is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan. She researches the causes and consequences of pediatric obesity, how the environment impacts obesity related metabolic risk factors to inform health policies.
Go to ProfileFabienne Peter is a British philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. She is a former head of the Department of Philosophy ; succeeded by current head, Guy Longworth. Peter has held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and is known for her works on political philosophy, moral philosophy, and social epistemology. She is a former editor of Economics and Philosophy and a former associate editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy.
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Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel
Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel Mulate is an Ethiopian physician and microbiologist researching infectious diseases, hospital-acquired infections, and antimicrobial resistance. She is an associate professor of medical microbiology at Addis Ababa University.
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Beverly P. Lynch
1936 - Present (88 years)
Beverly P. Lynch is an American scholar, professor, librarian, and administrator. She was president of the American Library Association from 1985-1986. Education Lynch earned a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in English and music from North Dakota State University, a Masters of Science degree in library sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Go to ProfileSusan E. Quaggin is a Canadian nephrologist. She is the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and chief of the Division of Nephrology.
Go to ProfileMaha H. Hussain is the Genevieve E. Teuton Professor of Medicine and deputy director of the Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. She is an oncologist focusing on genitourinary cancers.
Go to ProfileDeb Verhoeven is currently the Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics at the University of Alberta. Previously she was Associate Dean of Engagement and Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney, and before this she was Professor of Media and Communication at Deakin University. Until 2011 she held the role of director of the AFI Research Collection at RMIT. A writer, broadcaster, film critic and commentator, Verhoeven is the author of more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. Her book Jane Campion published by Routledge, is a detailed case study of the com...
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Ricky Kanee Schachter
1918 - 2007 (89 years)
Ricky Kanee Schachter, FRCP, CM was a dermatologist who practiced in the Toronto area, and was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in 1998, as "a researcher, teacher, administrator and healer, whose work in the areas of skin cancer and psoriasis has improved the lives of her patients, and inspired fellow researchers across Canada."
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Chiara Ottaviano
1955 - Present (69 years)
Chiara Ottaviano, is an Italian historian, writer and film director. Biography After obtaining a degree in philosophy, at the Università di Catania, thanks to scholarships of Einaudi Foundation of Torino, has done research on social and cultural history in Italy, England and South Africa.
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Karine Nahon
1972 - Present (52 years)
Karine Nahon is an Israeli information scientist in the area of information, technology, and society. She holds a dual position as an associate professor in The Information School at University of Washington and at Reichman University. In July 2017, Nahon was named #24 on Forbes' list of 50 Most Influential Women in Israel. Her co-authored book "Going Viral" was awarded Best Information Science Book Award by the Association for Information Science and Technology and the 2014 Outstanding Academic Title Award by the American Library Association.
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Wendy Henderson
2000 - Present (24 years)
Wendy A. Henderson is an American nurse practitioner, scientist, and academic administrator working as the director of the Center of Nursing Scholarship and Innovation at the University of Connecticut. She was previously a clinical investigator and lab chief of the National Institute of Nursing Research digestive disorders unit. Henderson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
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Sara J. Dent
1901 - 1999 (98 years)
Sara J. Dent was the first chief of Anesthesiology and the first female division chief in the Department of Surgery at Duke University. She assumed this role in 1968 and served as chair until 1971, when Dr. Merel H. Harmel became chair. She conducted the earliest high-impact clinical research in anesthesiology at Duke that focused on postoperative nausea and vomiting .
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Helen Elizabeth Nash
1921 - 2012 (91 years)
Helen Elizabeth Nash was a pediatrician known for breaking racial and gender barriers in the medical field. She began her career at the Homer G. Phillips Hospital, and later worked at the Saint Louis Children’s Hospital. She started her own private practice and was a faculty member at the Washington University School of Medicine. Her earliest work included decreasing infant mortality in Homer G. Phillips Hospital. Her private practice was notable for educating teens on proper sexual health. Additionally, she was one of the first medical doctors to address patient health as care for the patien...
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Bonnie J. Blackburn
1939 - Present (85 years)
Bonnie Jean Blackburn is an American musicologist. Career She graduated in 1970 from the University of Chicago with a PhD. She studied with Edward Lowinsky and Howard Mayer Brown. She was lecturer at Northwestern University, and visiting faculty member at the University of Chicago in 1986, and University at Buffalo, The State University of New York in 1989–90. She moved to Oxford in 1990 and became a freelance editor.
Go to ProfileStephanie J. Murphy is an American veterinary scientist. She is the director of the Division of Comparative Medicine in the Office of Research Infrastructure Programs at the National Institutes of Health. Murphy was previously a faculty member at the Oregon Health & Science University.
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Kgomotso Moahi
1958 - Present (66 years)
Kgomotso Hildegard Moahi, is an academic and academic administrator in Botswana, who serves as a full professor and deputy vice chancellor – student services at the Botswana Open University. She has previously served in the Department of Library and Information Studies, at the University of Botswana, the country's largest public university as the chair of the department of information studies, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and as member of the Council of the University of Botswana. For a period of nine months in 2017, Moahi served as the acting vice chancellor of the university.
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Patricia Numann
1941 - Present (83 years)
Patricia Joy Numann is an American endocrine surgeon. She is the founder of the Association of Women Surgeons, former president of the American College of Surgeons, and professor emeritus at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University.
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Olcay Neyzi
1927 - Present (97 years)
Remide Olcay Neyzi was a Turkish doctor and the former Director of the Department of Pediatrics, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine . As the first author of the most comprehensive pediatric textbook in Turkish, she greatly contributed to improving the level of medical education in Turkey.
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Emma Borg
1969 - Present (55 years)
Emma Borg is a professor of philosophy at the University of Reading. She specialises in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science. Publications External links Profile at the University of Reading
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Helen Petousis-Harris
Helen Aspasia Petousis-Harris is a New Zealand vaccinologist and associate professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland. She has been involved in research related to vaccination in New Zealand since 1998, with her main areas of focus being vaccine safety and effectiveness. Petousis-Harris has had a variety of lead roles in New Zealand and international organisations that focus on vaccination and is a regular media spokesperson in this field, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Go to ProfileMylin Ann Torres is an American breast cancer radiation oncologist. Torres is the Louisa and Rand Glenn Family Chair in Breast Cancer Research and director of the Glenn Family Breast Center. Early life and education Torres was raised in Savannah, Georgia, US. After her best friend's mother died of cancer when she was in sixth grade, Torres was influenced to pursue a career in medicine. Following high school, Torres enrolled at Harvard University for her Bachelor's degree in biology. As an undergraduate student, Torres competed with the Harvard Crimson women's tennis team where she was voted Rookie of the Year in 1995.
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Lori Emerson
1974 - Present (50 years)
Lori Emerson is an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and founder of the Media Archaeology Lab, a museum dedicated to obsolete technologies spanning from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. She is known for her work in media archaeology, digital preservation, and digital archives.
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Talja Blokland
1971 - Present (53 years)
Talja V. Blokland is a Dutch and German social scientist and urban researcher. She studied sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and was a PhD student in social sciences at the Amsterdam School for Social Research from 1994 to 1997, and at the New School University in 1996. After her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at Yale University and Manchester University. She was appointed as part-time Gradus Hendriks Professor in Community Development at Erasmus University and became a senior researcher and program director at the OTB Institute for Urban, Housing and Mobility Studies at the Delft University of Technology.
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Dana L. Suskind
1968 - Present (56 years)
Dana L. Suskind is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago Medical Center ; director of UChicago Medicine's Pediatric Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implant program; and founder and co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health at the University of Chicago.
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Kate Lorig
1942 - Present (82 years)
Dr. Kate Lorig, Dr.P.H., is an American professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also the director of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center. She is known for her work on chronic disease and patient education, has published several books and peer-reviewed journal articles in those fields, and developed a peer-led self-management course for patients with chronic diseases. Lorig is herself a chronic disease patient, having been diagnosed with Gaucher's disease at the age of three.
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Alison Leary
1950 - Present (74 years)
Alison Leary is a Chair of Healthcare & Workforce Modelling at London South Bank University. and a Senior Consultant, World Health Organization Human Resources for Health Group. She works on the modelling of private and public healthcare systems. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing and Queen's Nursing Institute.
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Miriam Braverman
1920 - 2002 (82 years)
Miriam Ruth Gutman Braverman was an American librarian. She attended library school at Pratt Institute. She was part of the socialist movement in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s she set up libraries in Freedom Schools in Mississippi, and she worked at the Brooklyn Public Library beginning in 1964. She was also one of the founders of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table, which was founded in 1969. She wrote a history of young adult services at three public libraries, titled Youth, Society and the Public Library . She was a leader in the fight which led to the American Library Association condemning the Vietnam War.
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Concepción Quiñones de Longo
Concepción Quiñones de Longo is a Puerto Rican pediatrician and government official. She was the interim Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico in March 2020 and had previously served as the undersecretary of Rafael Rodríguez Mercado. Quiñones de Longo is a former faculty member of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine.
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Christine Montross
1973 - Present (51 years)
Christine Elaine Montross is an American medical doctor and writer. First a published poet and a high school teacher, she later took up medical studies, and became an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University's Alpert Medical School. She is the recipient of a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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