Kathryn Dorothy Duncan Anderson, MD — surgery (pediatric)
Courtesy Leigh Ann Curl, MD, photograph by Bill Klosicki, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
When Dr. Kathryn D. Anderson (b. 1939) applied for a surgical residency at Harvard Medical School in 1964, she was told that women were too weak to be surgeons. Dr. Anderson has since gone on to become a pediatric surgeon of international renown. In 1992, she was made chief of surgery and vice president of surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and in 2000, she became the first woman president of the American Pediatric Surgical Association.
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