Flashcards: American obstetricians

Leander J. "Lee" Foley was an American football player and coach.

Walter Channing (April 15, 1786 – July 27, 1876) was an American physician and professor of medicine.

Justina Laurena Ford (January 22, 1871 – October 14, 1952) was an American physician.

Nancy Maria Hill (November 19, 1833 – January 8, 1919) was an American Civil War nurse who later became one of the first women physicians in the United States.

Catharine Macfarlane (1877–1969) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist who founded one of the first screening centers for uterine cancer in the United States.

Sophia Josephine Kleegman (1901–1971) was a Russian American obstetrician, gynecologist, and sex education advocate.

Elisabeth Larsson (1895 - ?) was a Swedish-American obstetrician/gynecologist known for her work as a pioneering member of the Medical Women's International Association, her research on cervical cancer and the care of premature infants, and her mentorship of and advocacy for other women physicians.

William Robert Roy (February 23, 1926 – May 26, 2014), also known as Bill Roy, was a United States Representative from Kansas, a physician, and a columnist for The Topeka Capital-Journal.

Helen Octavia Dickens (1909–2001) was the first African-American woman to be admitted to the American College of Surgeons.

Hilda Crosby Standish (1902 – June 1, 2005) was a pioneer in the birth control movement in the state of Connecticut.

Lucy Maria Field Wanzer (1841-1930) was the first woman to be admitted to and graduate from an American medical school west of the Rocky Mountains.

Dr. Robert S. Neuwirth (July 11, 1933 - December 17, 2013) was an American gynecologist who devoted his career to crafting and refining noninvasive practices promoting women's health.

Curtis Lester Mendelson, born September 4, 1913 in New York and died October 13, 2002, is an obstetrician and American cardiologist.

Alvan Henry Lafargue, Sr.

John Rock (March 24, 1890 – December 4, 1984) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist.

David Phillip "Phil" Roe, MD (born July 21, 1945) is an American politician and doctor who is the U.

John Whitridge Williams (January 26, 1866 – October 21, 1931) was a pioneering obstetrician at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Lazar C. Margulies (1895-1982) was a physician who specialized in obstetrics and gynecology.

Michael Clifton Burgess (born December 23, 1950) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing Texas's 26th congressional district.

Dr. Bedford graduated in 1825 at Mount Saint Mary's University (then Mount Saint Mary's College), Emmitsburg, Maryland, and took his medical degree from Rutgers College.

Joe Vincent Meigs (24 October 1892, Lowell, Massachusetts – 1963), was an American obstetrician and gynaecologist.

Sakaye Shigekawa (January 6, 1913 – October 18, 2013) was an American physician who specialized in obstetrics.

Priscilla White (March 17, 1900 – December 16, 1989) was a pioneer in the treatment of diabetes during pregnancy and type 1 diabetes, and was also a founding member of the Joslin Diabetes Center.

Albert Freeman Africanus King (18 January 1841 – 13 December 1914) an English-born American physician who witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on 14 April 1865.

Alice Bunker Stockham (November 8, 1833 in Cardington, Ohio – December 3, 1912 in Alhambra, California) was an obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.

Robert Nance Cluck, Jr.

Orvan Walter Hess (June 18, 1906 – September 6, 2002) was a physician noted for his early use of penicillin and the development of the fetal heart monitor.

George Julius Engelmann (July 2, 1847 – November 16, 1903) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist who was a native of St.

Eliza Anna Grier (1864–1902) was an American physician and the first African-American woman licensed to practice medicine in the U.

Dr. Alice Rothchild (born 1948) is a Jewish-American obstetrician, filmmaker, and social-justice activist.

Paul H. Crane is an American obstetrician and gynaecologist.

Dr. Louise Gilman Hutchins (1911–1996) was president and board director for the Mountain Maternal Health League in Berea, Kentucky for 47 years.

Richard Beverly Cole (August 12, 1829 – January 15, 1901) was an American physician and past president of the American Medical Association (AMA).

David Alan Grimes (born February 18, 1947) is an American physician and abortion provider who is certified in both obstetrics and gynecology and in preventive medicine.

Dr. Lena Sadler (June 9, 1875 — August 8, 1939) was an American physician, surgeon, and obstetrician who was a leader in women's health issues.

Joseph Bolivar DeLee (October 28, 1869 – April 2, 1942) was an American physician who became known as the father of modern obstetrics.

Virginia M. Alexander (1900-1949) was an American physician and founder of the Aspiranto Health Home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Deidre Downs (born July 7, 1980) is an American physician and former beauty pageant titleholder.

William Potts Dewees (May 5, 1768 – May 18, 1841) was an American physician, best known for his work in obstetrics, being described in American Medical Biographies as a "Philadelphian obstetrician [that] was so famous that no parturient woman of the time considered herself safe in other hands.

Yvonne S. Thornton (born November 21, 1947) is an American obstetrician-gynecologist, musician and author, best known for her memoir, The Ditchdigger's Daughters.

Mary Dixon Jones (1828–1908) is known for being the first American physician to propose and perform a total hysterectomy to treat a tumor in the uterine muscle (myoma).

Henry Jacques Garrigues (June 6, 1831 – July 7, 1913) was a Danish-born American doctor considered to have introduced antiseptic obstetrics to the United States.

Mason Cooke Andrews (April 19, 1919, in Norfolk, Virginia – October 13, 2006, in Norfolk, Virginia) was a Virginia politician and physician, known for delivering America's first in vitro baby.

Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1832–1903) was an American gynæcologist, born in Edisto Island, S.

Martin Arthur Couney (1870–March 1, 1950) was a physician and pioneer in neonatology.

Dr. Charlotte Johnson Baker (March 30, 1855 - October 31, 1937) was the first woman physician to practice medicine in San Diego, California.

Jane Elizabeth Hodgson (born January 23, 1915, Crookston, Minnesota – d. October 23, 2006, Rochester, Minnesota) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist.

Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee (October 10, 1898 – September 14, 1980) was an obstetrician and civil rights activist.

Bessie Louise Moses, M.

Irving Leroy Ress (August 23, 1904 – September 16, 1962) was a prominent Beverly Hills physician and obstetrician.