Learn about Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy, M.D., an 1894 graduate
from the University of Oregon Medical School and a key figure in
Progressive era Oregon public health and suffrage campaigns.
Kimberly Jensen, professor of history at Western Oregon University
and author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First
World War, traces Lovejoy's accomplishments, from medical
service in World War I to directing and expanding the American
Women's Hospitals, an international medical relief service for
civilians and refugees. As organizer and first president of the
Medical Women's International Association, Lovejoy developed an
international vision for cooperation among medical women, which
continued throughout her life.