Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead (April 6, 1867 – January 1, 1941) was a pioneering feminist and obstetrician[1] who promoted the role of women in medicine.

[2] She wrote A History of Women in Medicine: From the Earliest of Times to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century in 1938.

[5] She decided to study medicine out of respect for her father's career as a doctor, and on the advice of the well-respected physician, Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi.

She became an intern at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston where she studied with Dr. Marie Zakrzewska.

At a meeting of the Johns Hopkins Historical Club in 1890 she had become interested in the history of women physicians.