Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen graduated from the University of Michigan’s medical department in 1888 and eventually joined the New England Hospital for Women to complete a clinical study. In 1913, she became the director of gynecology at Cook County Hospital and was appointed head of obstetrics at Loyola University Medical School in Chicago in 1918. She was refused membership into the Chicago Gynecological and Obstetrical Society. She went on aid in the founding of the American Women’s Association in 1915 and became its first president (22). At this time, Dr. Florence Duchering became the first woman admitted to the American College of Surgeons in 1913 and Dr. Lillian Farrar subsequently served 5 consecutive terms as the first woman governor to the
