Rose Talbot Bullard

Her sister Lula Talbot Ellis was also a physician, and the first woman to graduate from the medical school at the University of Southern California in 1888.

[1] Bullard moved to California in 1886 and soon was helping with a smallpox epidemic in Los Angeles.

[3] She was also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, one of only eight women elected to that status when the organization was founded in 1912.

Bullard died suddenly in 1915, aged 51 years, from complications after a surgery to treat a dental infection.

[8] The Women Physicians Action Committee of the Los Angeles County Medical Association gives an annual Rose Talbot Bullard Award for a woman physician who is a "champion and trailblazer".