Sofia Ionescu

Sofia Ionescu-Ogrezeanu (25 April 1920 – 21 March 2008) was the first female neurosurgeon in the world.

During a school break, she volunteered to take care of Soviet prisoners at Stamate Hospital in Fălticeni.

In 1944, during the Bombing of Bucharest in World War II, she was forced to perform an emergency brain surgery on an injured boy due to lack of sufficient medical staff.

9, forming a team with Ionel Ionescu and Constantin Arseni [ro], under the guidance of Dumitru Bagdasar.

[4] In 1970, the favorite wife of the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi had become ill. As a man could not enter the harem, they needed to find a female doctor.