1. Leader: Dmitry Banov Asgedom Asmelash 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 Farmer The world's first female fetal surgeon and the second American woman to be inducted into the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons of England “When I was young and planning my career, I was, 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

6. “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).” 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 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” Nina Starr Braunald Mihelle Sandov

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

8. Joycelyn Elders Joycelyn Elders' childhood till college Born in 1933 in Little Rock, Arkansas to farming family Taught how to read by her mom. In spite of her Dad opposition to further study, she continued her education and became a doctor Appointed as U.S. Surgeon General by President Clinton. Asgedom Asmelash

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 Asgedom Asmelash

10. Dr. Fannie Almara Quain First woman in North Dakota to earn a medical degree She traveled all around the state, helping people and attends to her patients. Set up and participated in several organization Brendan Wang

11. Organizations/Positions American Lung Association of North Dakota Secretary from 1909 to 1921 Vice President from 1921 to 1928. President from 1928 to 1936 American Medical Women's Association Regional director from 1933 to 1934 North Dakota State Tuberculosis Sanitarium Help founded in 1909 Brendan Wang

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