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Nadine Caron
1970 - Present (54 years)
Nadine Rena Caron FACS, FRCSC, , is a Canadian surgeon. She is the first Canadian female general surgeon of First Nations descent , as well as the first female First Nations student to graduate from University of British Columbia's medical school.
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Mary Chiarella
1952 - Present (72 years)
Elizabeth Mary Chiarella AM is an Australian academic who specialises in issues relating to nursing, midwifery and the law. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney, Australia and has been at the forefront of many regulatory changes to nursing practice and the nursing workforce and midwifery. These include the introduction of nurse practitioners into Australia, the move from a state based to a national regulatory system and, for midwifery, the introduction of the world's first Doctor of Midwifery and the establishment of the framework for state funded home birth midwifery in New South Wales , Australia.
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Ruth Sanger
1918 - 2001 (83 years)
Ruth Ann Sanger was an Australian immunogeneticist, haematologist and serologist. She was known for her work on human red cell antigens and for the genetic mapping of the human X chromosome. She was Director of the Medical Research Council Blood Group Unit, of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine from 1973 to 1983.
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Vicki Sauter
1955 - Present (69 years)
Vicki Lynn Sauter is an American management scientist and systems engineer known for her books on decision support systems. She is a professor in the Information Systems and Technology Department at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
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Marleen Temmerman
1953 - Present (71 years)
Marleen Temmerman is a Belgian gynaecologist, professor and former Senator, currently heading the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health at Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya. Biography Temmerman has worked in various locations around the world for the health and rights of women and children. Most of her work is in the academic and political international arena, particularly in collaboration with United Nations organizations, such as WHO and UNFPA, as well as the European Union, the African Union, national governments in Europe and Africa, as well as with media and civil society.
Go to ProfileHilary D. Marston is an American physician-scientist and global health policy advisor specializing in pandemic preparedness. She is the Chief Medical Officer of the Food and Drug Administration. Career Marston worked for McKinsey & Company and at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a program officer and special assistant. She then studied internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. In 2013, Marston joined National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases . She has experience in outbreak response, including Zika virus and Ebola. Marston served as a medical officer and policy advisor for global health and pandemic preparedness at NIAID.
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Adrienne Williams Scott
Adrienne Williams Scott is an American ophthalmologist specialized in diabetic retinopathy, epiretinal membranes, and macular degeneration. She is chief of the Wilmer Eye Institute in Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. She is an associate professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Go to ProfileMichelle van Ryn is an American health researcher who is the Grace Phelps Distinguished Professor at the Oregon Health & Science University. Her research considers the social determinants of health and equity in healthcare. She demonstrated that physicians' perceptions of patients was impacted by their socio-demographic status. She is the founder of Diversity Sciences, a consultancy company who provide evidence-based training for organizations looking to eliminate bias.
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Pamela Rendi-Wagner
1971 - Present (53 years)
Pamela Rendi-Wagner is an Austrian physician, environmentalist, feminist, trade unionist and politician who served as chairwoman of the Social Democratic Party between November 2018 and June 2023. She was the first woman to lead the SPÖ.
Go to ProfileHeather Currie MBE is an associate specialist gynaecologist. Her work relates specifically to menopause and she is the founder of Menopause Matters, a web resource providing to the public up-to-date, accurate information about the health at the menopause, menopause at work menopausal symptoms and treatment options.
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Riko Muranaka
1953 - Present (71 years)
is a medical doctor, journalist and recipient of the 2017 John Maddox Prize for fighting to reduce cervical cancer and countering misinformation about the human papilloma virus vaccine dominating the Japanese media, despite facing safety threats. Despite the lack of evidence, the HPV vaccine is infamous in Japan due to misattributed adverse effects, with government suspending promotion and coverage. While the World Health Organization safety and efficacy information about the vaccine is consistent with Muranaka's reporting, a court ruled against Muranaka in an unrelated slander lawsuit in 2016 for claims of alleged fabrication.
Go to ProfileClara Chu is a Chinese-Canadian library and information science scholar. She is the Director of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interest is in multicultural library and information services.
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Katarina Majerhold
1971 - Present (53 years)
Katarina Majerhold is a Slovenian philosopher, writer and editor. She is particularly interested in philosophy of emotions, especially in philosophy of love and sexuality, happiness, philosophical counseling and ethics. In 2017 she published an article on the History of Love in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. She has been a member of Society for the Philosophy of Sex + Love since 1998. In 2020 she wrote her concept of love as a creative dynamic work In which she claims that all known western concepts of love are based on lack of something or someone, such as primordial wholeness, God...
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Tess Cramond
1926 - 2015 (89 years)
Teresa Rita O'Rourke Cramond AO, OBE was an Australian doctor and the director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Centre at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. Her career spanning fifty years, was dedicated to improving the use of anaesthesia, resuscitation and pain medicine, with specific reference to the relief of cancer pain and palliative care.
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Catherine Itzin
1944 - 2010 (66 years)
Catherine Lenore Itzin , also known as Cathy Itzin, was a critic specialising in alternative theatre and later an advisor on women's issues. Itzin immigrated to Britain in the late 1960s and completed an MPhil at University College London and a PhD at the University of Kent some years later. A co-editor of Theatre Quarterly until 1977 she began the Alternative Theatre Directory as a short section of the journal in 1971; the directory itself had become a substantial periodical by 1975. She was drama critic of Tribune for about a decade, and wrote a history of the alternative theatre movement, ...
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Francine Leca
1938 - Present (86 years)
Francine Leca is a French cardiac surgeon and professor of medicine specializing in heart surgery, a pioneer of the discipline in pediatrics. Biography Francine Leca gravitated toward medicine at a very young age. During an internship in cardiac surgery under professor Jean Mathey at Laennec Hospital, she assisted her first open heart surgery. As an intern at hôpitaux de Paris, she discovered pediatric cardiac surgery under Professor George Lemoine. She went on to specialize in congenital heart defects.
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Tiffany Stewart
1974 - Present (50 years)
Tiffany M. Stewart is an American clinical psychologist and the Dudley and Beverly Coates Endowed Professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisiana State University System. Stewart is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides mental health treatment and conducts behavioral health research as Director of the Behavior Technology Laboratory. She was the lead scientist who developed one of the first computerized procedures for measuring body image called the Body Morph Assessment . Stewart also established the first treatment clinic at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, ...
Go to ProfileKrista Lawlor is an American philosopher and Henry Waldgrave Stuart Memorial Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. She is known for her works on philosophy of mind and epistemology. Books Assurance: An Austinian View of Knowledge and Knowledge Claims New Thoughts about Old Things: Cognitive Policies as the Ground of Singular Concepts
Go to ProfileJackie Benschop is a New Zealand Professor of Veterinary Public Health at Massey University, specialising in the animal–human–environment interface, particularly for Leptospira, Campylobacter and Salmonella. She is a member of the World Health Organisation's Steering Committee for the Global Leptospirosis Environmental Action Network, and a co-founder of the African Leptospirosis Network.
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Monique Ryan
1967 - Present (57 years)
Monique Marie Ryan is an Australian paediatric neurologist and politician. She is currently the member of parliament for the federal seat of Kooyong, having won the seat at the 2022 Australian federal election.
Go to ProfileSonia Yris Angell is an American public health figure. She is an assistant clinical professor of medicine in the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2020, after resigning as director of the California Department of Public Health, Angell was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Go to ProfileCarolina Sartorio is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. Previously she taught at the University of Arizona. She is known for her works on free will. Books Causation and Free Will, Oxford University Press 2016 Do We Have Free Will? A Debate, with Robert Kane, Routledge 2021
Go to ProfileCaroline E. Ford is an Australian scientist at the University of New South Wales and advocate for women in science. Her research aims to understand why gynaecological cancers develop, how they spread and how best to treat them, and she leads the Gynaecological Cancer Research Group at the University of New South Wales, which was established in 2010.
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Stefania Jabłońska
1920 - 2017 (97 years)
Stefania Jabłońska was a Polish physician and professor specializing in dermatology. She worked at the Medical University of Warsaw. In 1972, she theorized the association of human papilloma viruses with skin cancer in epidermodysplasia verruciformis.
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Olga Grau
1945 - Present (79 years)
Olga Ida Magdalena Grau Duhart is a contemporary Chilean writer, full professor, and philosopher, a specialist in gender, sexuality, philosophy, education, and literature. Early life and education Olga Ida Magdalena Grau Duhart was born in Santiago, Chile, September 21, 1945. She has a Diploma in childhood studies from Montclair State University, in Montclair, New Jersey, U.S., and a Doctorate in Literature with a specialization in Chilean and Hispanic literature from the University of Chile.
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Ruthild Hahne
1910 - 2001 (91 years)
Ruthild Hahne was a German sculptor. Her most productive phase coincided with the early years of the German Democratic Republic . Life Provenance and early years Ruthild Hahne was born in Berlin. Her father is variously described as a businessman and as a factory owner. Elsewhere her parents are described as distant and domineering. She grew up in a prosperous household in a substantial family home in Berlin's Schmöckwitz quarter. The household included a housekeeper, a gardener and a chauffeur. She attended the single-sex secondary school in the city's Neukölln quarter. While she was there someone lent her a book by Karl Marx which she took home and read.
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Lorraine Besser
1973 - Present (51 years)
Lorraine Besser is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College. She is known for her works on moral philosophy. Books The Philosophy of Happiness: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, Routledge Press 2021Eudaimonic Ethics: The Philosophy and Psychology of Living Well, Routledge Press 2014The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics, Co-edited with Michael Slote, Routledge Press 2015
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Lizbeth Goodman
1964 - 2000 (36 years)
Lizbeth Goodman is the Chair of Creative Technology Innovation and founder director of the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute and the MAGIC Multimedia & Games Innovation Centre, formerly at the University of East London, England, and elsewhere, now at University College Dublin in Dublin, Ireland.
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Seema Yasmin
1982 - Present (42 years)
Seema Yasmin is a British-American physician, writer and science communicator based at Stanford University. She is Director of Research and Education at the Stanford Health Communication Initiative. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yasmin helped to debunk myths about the coronavirus.
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Rosa-Linda Fregoso
1954 - Present (70 years)
Rosa-Linda Fregoso is the Professor and former Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Biography Fregoso was born in Corpus Christi, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and her Ph.D. in Comparative Studies: Language, Society and Culture from the University of California, San Diego, where she studied under American media critic and scholar, Herbert Schiller, and literary scholar, Rosaura Sánchez.
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Jessica Huber
2000 - Present (24 years)
Jessica Eugenie Huber is an American speech scientist. She is a Professor of speech, language and hearing sciences and College of Health and Human Sciences associate dean for research at Purdue University.
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Aza Rakhmanova
1932 - 2015 (83 years)
Aza Rakhmanova or Aza Hasanovna Rakhmanova was a Russian AIDS and Hepatitis expert. She was credited with organizing AIDS prevention and control in St. Petersburg. She was one of the first to be treating HIV in the Soviet Union in 1987.
Go to ProfileIlaria Testa is an Italian-born scientist who is a Fellow at the SciLifeLab in Stockholm and an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physics at the School of Engineering Science at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She has made major contributions to advanced microscopy, particularly superresolution microscopy .
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Giselle Corbie-Smith
Giselle Corbie-Smith is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She serves as Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and Associate Provost of the Institute of Rural Innovation. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018. Her research considers racial disparities in healthcare.
Go to ProfileSara Howard is a British speech therapist and Professor Emerita of Clinical Phonetics at the University of Sheffield. Career Howard earned a BA in English and an MA in Linguistics at the University of Leeds before receiving a BSc in Speech & Language Therapy at Leeds Metropolitan University and a PhD in Clinical Phonetics at the University of Sheffield. She works in the area of the phonetics/phonology interface in developmental speech impairments .
Go to ProfileMisty Rayna Jenkins is an Australian scientist known for her research into lymphocytes and cancer treatment. Jenkins leads an Immunology Laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research where she researches brain cancer and aims to establish a world-leading immunotherapy lab specialising in researching the possibilities of new treatments for both adult and paediatric brain cancer.
Go to ProfileDhayendre Moodley is a South African scientist and Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Career She received an Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation fellowship to work with John Sullivan at his laboratory. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Over 100 journal papers have been co-authored by Moodley.
Go to ProfileTraci C. West is a scholar and activist. She is the James W. Pearsall Professor of Christian Ethics and African American Studies at Drew University Theological School and Professor Extraorinarius in the Institute for Gender Studies in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa. She is the author of numerous articles on gender, racial, and sexuality justice. Her notable books include Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence , Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter , Our Family Values: Sa...
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Lisa Campo-Engelstein
1950 - Present (74 years)
Lisa Campo-Engelstein is an American bioethicist and fertility/contraceptive researcher. She currently works at the University of Texas Medical Branch as the Harris L. Kempner Chair in the Humanities in Medicine Professor, the Director of the Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities, and an Associate Professor in Preventive Medicine and Population Health. She is also a feminist bioethicist specializing in reproductive ethics and sexual ethics. She has been recognized in the BBC's list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019.
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Ruth Dayhoff
1952 - Present (72 years)
Ruth Dayhoff is an American physician and medical bioinformatician. Early life Dayhoff is the daughter of Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, an early bioinformatician, and Edward S Dayhoff, a distinguished Physicist in the area of Electro-optics. From a young age, Dayhoff was encouraged by her mother to pursue scientific interests. In Dayhoff's words:
Go to ProfileDawn Elizabeth Elder is a New Zealand academic and paediatrician. As of 2018, she is a full professor and head of department at the University of Otago, Wellington. Early life and family Elder is the daughter of Ivan Elder, who served as mayor of Gore in the 1970s. She was educated at Gore High School.
Go to ProfileAlison Macdonald Park is a British social scientist who is a professor and previous executive chair of the Economic and Social Research Council . Her research has focused on longitudinal data collection and social attitudes. She was appointed a Commander of the British Empire in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to the Social Sciences.
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Marian Ewurama Addy
1942 - 2014 (72 years)
Marian Ewurama Addy was a Ghanaian biochemist and the first Host of the National Science and Maths Quiz. The first Ghanaian woman to attain the rank of full professor of natural science, Addy became a role model for school girls and budding female scientists on the limitless opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Marian Addy was also a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected in 1999. In the same year, she was awarded the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for the Popularization of Science.
Go to ProfileBosede Bukola Afolabi is a UK-born Nigerian Gynaecologist, Professor, and Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the College of Medicine, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria. She is the founder and chairperson of the Maternal and Reproductive Health Research Collective , a research and training NGO. She is also the Director at the Centre for Clinical Trials, Research and Implementation Science .
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Bronwyn Parry
1962 - Present (62 years)
Professor Bronwyn Parry is an Australian Professor who is currently the Dean of The Australian National University's College of Arts and Social Sciences; Parry took her position in early November 2022. Parry specializes in social impact work undertaken at academic institutions. Parry was previously the Vice President & Vice Principal for Service at King's College London from 2020 to 2022. She was a Professor of Global Health & Social Medicine at King's College London from 2016 to 2022.
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Sheela Basrur
1956 - 2008 (52 years)
Sheela Basrur, was a Canadian physician and Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Health. She resigned from these positions late in 2006 to undergo treatment for cancer.
Go to ProfileAmy K. LeBlanc is an American veterinary oncologist and biologist researching animal modeling for development of new cancer drugs and imaging agents, and identification of imaging biomarkers, development and optimization of PET imaging hardware and imaging protocols. She is a senior scientist in the molecular imaging program and director of the Comparative Oncology Program at the National Cancer Institute. LeBlanc was previously an associate professor at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and College of Veterinary Medicine.
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Amanda Holden
1948 - 2021 (73 years)
Amanda Juliet Holden was a British pianist, librettist, translator, editor and academic teacher. She is known for translating opera librettos to more contemporary English for the English National Opera, and for writing new librettos, especially in collaboration with Brett Dean. She contributed to encyclopedias such as the New Penguin Opera Guide.
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Lucy Fischer
1945 - Present (79 years)
Lucy Fischer is an American film studies scholar currently Distinguished Professor at University of Pittsburgh. In 2001–03 Fisher was a President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Selected works
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