National Library of Medicine | Changing the Face of Medicine | Dr. Vivian Pinn @NLMNIH | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Dr. Vivian Pinn served as the first full-time director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Additionally, she was the first African American woman to chair an academic pathology department in the United States, at Howard University College of Medicine.
She’s featured in Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians, an online exhibition from the National Library of Medicine. Visit the homepage to see more: nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/changing-the-face-of-medicine/index.html.
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Dr. Vivian Pinn served as the first full-time director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Additionally, she was the first African American woman to chair an academic pathology department in the United States, at Howard University College of Medicine.
She’s featured in Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians, an online exhibition from the National Library of Medicine. Visit the homepage to see more: nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/changing-the-face-of-medicine/index.html.
#humanhealth #medicalhistory #womeninmedicine
