Elisa Fernández de la Vega

Elisa Fernanda María del Carmen Fernández de la Vega y Lombán was a Spanish physician and professor. She and her twin sister, Jimena Fernández de la Vega, were among the first women from Galicia to earn a degree in medicine. Elisa specialized in the treatment of respiratory diseases and aspired to become a professor at the University of Santiago. She died in 1933, at the age of 37, of a self-diagnosed atypical pneumonia.