Interview: Pinn, Vivan, 2018
Item
- Resource class
- Interview
- Title
- Interview: Pinn, Vivan, 2018
- Type
- Interview
- Interviewee
- Pinn, Vivan
- Birth Year
- 1941
- Birth Place
- Halifax, Virginia
- Interviewer
- Bokka, Leshya
- Patel Anisha
- Location Created
- New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Date Created
- 14 November 2018
- Abstract
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Vivian Pinn, MD, was the first full-time Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) from 1991-2011 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIH Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health. In 1967, Dr. Pinn graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine as the only African American woman in her class. Dr. Pinn was a Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology at Howard University College of Medicine, Associate Professor of Pathology and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Teaching Fellow at Harvard Medical School.
In this interview Dr. Pinn discusses impressions of the women in her life and how this influenced the woman she was to become. She then speaks about the moments in her life that impacted her career path in medicine that coincided with the struggles of being black woman in medicine. She closes this interview with advice to women graduating from college and entering the workforce. - Source Project Description
- This interview was conducted by IWL Leadership Scholars as part of an ongoing intergenerational interview program at the Institute for Women's Leadership. Since the inception of the Leadership Scholars Certificate Program in the fall of 1999, students have conducted annual interviews with outstanding women leaders. Select transcripts from the collection are accessible on the IWL website.
- Collection
- Women's Leadership Interview Archives
- Repository
- Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL), Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Rights
- For permission to use interview excerpts from the Women's Leadership Interview Archive, contact the Institute for Women's Leadership at Rutgers University–New Brunswick at info@iwl.rutgers.edu.
- Related Resource
- Women's Leadership Interview Archives
- IWL Leadership Scholars
- Vivian Pinn (Wikipedia)
- Subject
- Institute for Women's Leadership (Rutgers)
- Medicine
- Howard University
- Women's Leadership
- Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Sports
- Identifier
- IWL-Pinn
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