Iza Frances Josephine Coghlan

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(10 October 1868 – 1 July 1946) was an Australian medical doctor. With

Grace Boelke Grace Fairley Boelke (4 July 1870 – 17 February 1948) was an Australian medical doctor. She was one of the first female graduates in medicine from the University of Sydney. Early life and education Boelke was born Grace Fairley Robinson in So ...

, she was one of the first two female graduates in medicine from the University of Sydney.

Biography

Coghlan was born in Redfern, a suburb of Sydney, in 1868, to Irish immigrant parents. Her father, Thomas Coghlan, a plasterer, died when Iza was 13. She received a scholarship to attend Sydney Girls High School when it opened in 1883. She enrolled at the University of Sydney in 1887 and was the sole woman in the year's intake of medical students. In 1897, she graduated with a bachelor of medicine and a master of surgery, making her one of the first female graduates in medicine in the state of New South Wales, along with

. Coghlan established a private practice in Sydney in 1893 and began working as a life insurance medical assessor in 1894. From 1910, she medically examined candidates seeking employment in the federal public service, and from 1915 she worked as a medical officer in the NSW Department of Public Instruction. She was a co-founder and president of the NSW Medical Women's Society and worked with St John Ambulance Australia to give lectures on first aid and home nursing. She never married, and retired in 1930 to live with two of her sisters in

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in northern Sydney. She died on 1 July 1946 from coronary heart disease. She had eight siblings, including the statistician and engineer Timothy Augustine Coghlan, the lawyer Charles Coghlan, and the politician

Cecil Coghlan Cecil Aubrey Coghlan (1878 – 26 August 1924) was an Australian politician. He was born in Redfern, New South Wales, Redfern to builder Thomas Coghlan and Dora Jordan. He attended Sydney Grammar School and was then a solicitor's clerk, work ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boelke, Grace 1868 births 1946 deaths Sydney Medical School alumni Medical doctors from Sydney People educated at Sydney Girls High School 20th-century Australian medical doctors 19th-century Australian women medical doctors 20th-century Australian women medical doctors