She was one of the first officers of the YWCA of Los Angeles, when it formed in 1893.[2] She was elected president of the Los Angeles County Medical Association in 1902, the first woman to serve in that post (and the only woman to serve in that post until 1992).[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.