Great Women of Medicine Portraits

GREAT WOMEN OF MEDICINE PORTRAITS

Oil and oil pastel portrait by Jo Napier

One of Canada's first female physicians, Maude became an internationally known expert on congenital heart disease

Original oil portrait by Jo Napier

Alice pioneered a treatment for leprosy before she died at 24

Oil portrait with oil pastels - by Jo Napier

Harriet was Canada's female nuclear physicist

16x20 original oil portrait by Jo Napier

Marie, who pioneered work on radioactivity, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize

Oil pastel portrait of Trudy Elion by Jo Napier

"Trudy" Elion created the first treatment for childhood leukemia and helped change the way drugs are developed

Oil and oil pastels - portrait by Jo Napier

Among the first openly gay physicians, Marie was a leading figure in public health campaigns

Oil portrait - Jo Napier

Leone and her "Team Farrell" enabled the polio vaccine's mass production

oil portrait (in progress)

Dorothy solved the atomic structure of penicillin and insulin

Frances single-handedly averted U.S. thalidomide tragedy

Jewish-Austrian physicist, Lise was instrumental in discovery of protactinium and nuclear fission

oil portrait/Jo Napier

Revered 17th century midwife/healer, French-Acadian Marie-Henriette LeJeune Ross

More GREAT WOMEN OF MEDICINE

Portait by Jo Napier (Commissioned by The Pink Couch Collective)

First Canadian female surgeon, Jennie performed the country's first major gynecological surgery

Sophia B. Jones, first Black Canadian woman to become a doctor

Susan La Flesche Picotte, Native American medical doctor