Iza Coghlan

Iza Frances Josephine Coghlan MBBS ChM (10 October 1868 – 1 July 1946) was an Australian medical doctor. With Grace Boelke, 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 Grace Boelke.