Anna Warouw was born on 23 February 1898 in Amurang, which is located in the region of
Minahasa in
North Sulawesi. She started her medical studies at STOVIA in
Batavia (now
Jakarta) in 1914. She entered two years after
Marie Thomas, who was the first female student to be accepted at STOVIA. Warouw graduated from STOVIA in 1924. She practiced medicine in several places including
Gorontalo,
Kudus,
Makassar,
Manado, and
Semarang. She married Jean Eduard Karamoy who was also a physician and accompanied him to Europe where Karamoy studied for his doctorate degree. During the time, Warouw studied the field of otolaryngology at the
University of Leiden. == References ==