List of female surgeons

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This is a list of pioneering female surgeons. About 10% of surgery residents are female, less than 5% out in the field.

In addition to this list, a growing number of female surgeons are entering the field of Cosmetic Surgery. Some of them have greater visibility as they advertise their practices through various mass media.

• Dr. Mary Edwards Walker - first United States Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor November 11, 1865 [1]
• Dr. Sofie Herzog - First Female Surgeon in Texas, 1895 [2]
• Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown - first African American female surgeon in the South [3] obit
• Dr. Ruth Jackson, Orthopedic surgeon, [4] [5]
• Dr. Patricia Numann, FACS, founder of Association of Women Surgeons
• Dr. Averil Mansfield CBE FRCS, Vascular surgery
• Dr. Nahid Toubia, first female surgeon in Sudan
• Dr. Velma P. Scantlebury-White, Transplant surgery
• Dr. Shehin Entazary, General, Afghanistan

[edit] Female surgeons in mass media

• Dr. Elizabeth Morgan, FACS
• Dr. Deborah Colville, Ophthalmology

[edit] External links

• A woman's preference: Women want to be operated on by a female surgeon.
• Patients' preference for male or female breast surgeons: questionnaire study
• Manual extraction of a rectal foreign body - the importance of choosing the right surgeon
• Women in Surgery (WIS) Workshop at Hobart Convention - July, 2004
• Female Patients' Sex Preferences in Selection of Gynecologists and Surgeons
• http://www.sma.org.sg/sma_news/3608/women_in_surgery.pdf
• http://www.womensurgeons.org/
• Age, gender, lateral dominance, and prediction of operative skill among general surgery residents.
• Women in Science Cites recent example of male surgeon guiding female high schooler away from surgery and towards either dermatology or pediatrics