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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Dr. Vivian Pinn
Dr. Vivian Pinn
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| Other authors / contributors: | Pinn, Vivian W., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2013 July 22.
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| Summary: | Medical director Vivian W. Pinn was born in 1941 in Halifax, Virginia. Pinn received her B.A. degree from Wellesley College in 1963. She earned her M.D. degree from the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine in 1967 and completed her residency in pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1970. Pinn went on to become the third woman and first African American woman appointed to chair a department of pathology in the U.S. while at Howard University College of Medicine. In 1991, Pinn became the first director of the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and, in 1994, she was named associate director for Research on Women's Health at NIH. Pinn served as president of the National Medical Association. In 2010, the Vivian Pinn College of the UVA School of Medicine was named in her honor.
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