DR. SUNIL NATHA MHASKE

2. Dr. Sunil Natha Mhaske
M.B.B.S., M.D.(Paediatrics), M.B.A. (Health and Hospital Administration)
M.A. (Public Administration), Ph.D. Scholar
Dean
Dr. Vithalrao Vikhe Patil Foundation’s Medical College and Hospital, Ahmednagar

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Lect: 26. Notable Females in Medical Field

4. 1. Dr. Anandi Gopal Joshi
Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi during a class at Women’s Medical
College of Pennsylvania in the 1880s

5. Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania

6. 2. Rukhmabai Raut
• “I am one of those unfortunate Hindu women whose hard lot is
to suffer the unnamable miseries entailed by the custom of early
marriage. This wicked practice of child marriage has destroyed
the happiness of my life. It comes between me and the things
which I prize above all others — study and mental cultivation.
Without the least fault of mine, I am doomed to seclusion; every
aspiration of mine to rise above my ignorant sisters is looked
down upon with suspicion and is interpreted in the most
uncharitable manner.”
Extract from Rukhmabai’s letter to Times of India on June 26. 1885.

7. Rukhmabai Raut died, aged 90,
from lung cancer on 25
September 1955.

8. 3. Kadambini Ganguly
Residence of Kadambini Ganguly

10. 4. Muthulakshmi Reddy

12. 5. Banoo Jehangir Coyaji
Awards and recognition-
•1989 – Padma Bhushan
•1992 – Punyabhushan Award
•1993 – Ramon Magsaysay Award for
Public Service

13. 6. Gurubai Karmarkar

14. 7. Dr. V. Shanta

15. 8. Dr. Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati

17. 9. Dr. Indira Hinduja

18. 10. Dr. Kamini Rao

19. 11. Dr. Firuza Parikh

20. 12. Dr. Manjula Anagani

21. 13. Dr Ketayun Ardeshir Dinshaw

22. 14. M. Subhadra Nair

23. 15. Prof Dr. Armida Fernandez

24. 16. Mary Poonen Lukose

25. 17. Mary Puthisseril Verghese

26. 18. Mambalikalathil Sarada Menon

27. 26. Suniti Solomon

28. 27. Kshama Metre

29. 28. Neelam Kler

30. Dr Vasudha Vishnu Apte
• First lady in the state of Maharashtra to choose Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
• First lady Medico-legal expert in the State of Maharashtra
• Only lady in the panel of Deputy Coroners in the history of 125 years of the Coroners
Court in Mumbai.
• First lady to be the President of Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine and also the
Medico-legal Association of Maharashtra.
• Awards-
 1995 *Woman of the Year* from American Biographic Institute
 1999 *Woman of the Decade* from Medico-legal Society New Delhi
 2001 *Woman of the Millenium*, New Delhi
 2009 *Hirkani Puraskaar* from Mumbai Doordarshan
 2010 *Lifetime Achievement Certificate* from T.N. Medical College
 2013 *Unch Maza Zhoka Puraskaar* from Zee Marathi channel
 2017 *Chittapawan Bhushan* from Akhila Bharatiya Chittapawan Brahman
Mahasangha
 2018 *Suprabhaat Sahitya Puraskaar*
 2018 *Nobel Asian of the Year*, Surat
 2018 *Vishesh Pravinnya Puraskaar* from Marathe Pratisthan

31. 29. Mandakini Amte

32. 30. Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar

33. Thanks a Lot