BORN 1923 INDUCTED 2014 CATEGORY Health THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME First local hospital matron and best-selling author Janet Lim Chiu Mei is a remarkable example of a woman who, against the odds, managed to change the course of her...
BORN 1916 INDUCTED 2014 CATEGORY Health THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Founder of the first nursing home for dementia patients When Dr Oon Chiew Seng opened her clinic in Armenian Street in 1959, she was the first gynaecologist to go into...
BORN 1913 INDUCTED 2014 CATEGORY Health THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME First schoolgirl in Singapore to win the Queen’s Scholarship Maggie Lim, nee Tan, was, in 1930 the first schoolgirl in Singapore to win the prestigious Queen’s...
BORN 1895 INDUCTED 2014 CATEGORY Health THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME First local woman to practise as a medical doctor Lee Choo Neo was born in 1895 to Straits Chinese businessman Lee Hoon Leong and his second wife Mak Hup Sin. Lee...
BORN 1886 INDUCTED 2014 CATEGORY Health THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Pioneer in paediatrics in Singapore and Malaya Sarah Mary Josephine Winstedt, one of the first women doctors in Malaya, pioneered modern infant care in rural Malaya....
