GWUMC Events

Please join us for Public Health Grand Rounds, featuring Dr. Vivian
Pinn, Director, Office of Research on Women's Health , National
Institutes of Health. Dr. Pinn will present "Women's Health, Where do We
Go From Here?" on Wednesday, December 2, at noon in the GW Hospital
Auditorium.  This lecture is the second annual Edward N. Brandt, Jr.,
Memorial Lecture in Women's Health.

What: Public Health Grand Rounds, Second Annual Edward N. Brandt Jr.,
           Memorial Lecture in Women's Health
           "Women's Health: Where do We Go from Here?"

Who:  Dr. Vivian Pinn, Director, Office of Research on Women's Health,
           National Institutes of Health

When: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, noon

Where: GW Hospital Auditorium (basement level)


Lunch will be provided. CME and Professional enhancement credit will be
available.

Dr. Vivian W. Pinn is the first full-time Director of the Office of
Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health
(NIH), an appointment she has held since November 1991. In February
1994, she was also named Associate Director for Research on Women’s
Health, NIH. Dr. Pinn came to NIH from Howard University College of
Medicine in Washington, D.C., where she had been Professor and Chair of
the Department of Pathology since 1982, and has previously held
appointments at Tufts University and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pinn
has long been active in efforts to improve the health and career
opportunities for women and minorities. She has been invited to present
the ORWH’s mandate, programs and initiatives to many national and
international individuals and organizations with an interest in
improving women’s health and the health of minorities. She led a
national effort to reexamine priorities for the women’s health
research agenda for the 21st Century, involving over 1,500 advocates,
scientists, policy makers, educators and health care providers in a
series of scientific meetings across the country to determine progress
as well as continuing, or emerging, areas in need of research. Her
recent focus has been to raise the perception of the scientific
community about the importance of sex and gender factors in basic
science, clinical research, and health care.

Dr. Pinn received her early education in the schools of Lynchburg,
Virginia. She earned her B.A. from Wellesley College in Massachusetts,
and received her M.D. from the University of Virginia School of Medicine
in 1967, where she was the only woman and minority in her class. She
returned to Massachusetts to complete her postgraduate training in
Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, during which time she
also served as Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pinn
then joined the faculty of Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts
New England Medical Center Hospital in 1970 and held the positions of
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, and Associate Professor of
Pathology, with a primary interest in renal immunology, at the time she
left to assume the Chairmanship of the Department of Pathology at Howard
University College of Medicine and Howard University in September 1982,
becoming the third woman to chair an academic department of Pathology in
the U.S. She is a member of long standing in many professional and
scientific organizations, in which she held many positions of
leadership. She also served as the 88th President of the National
Medical Association (and second woman president) during the year
1989-1990.

Dr. Pinn has received numerous honors, awards, and recognitions, and
has been granted nine Honorary Degrees of Laws and Science since 1992,
including Lynchburg College (VA), Doctor of Laws; Tufts University
(Medford, MA), Doctor of Science Honoris Causa; College of the Holy
Cross (Worcester, MA), Doctor of Science Honoris Causa; the University
of Massachusetts, Doctor of Science Honoris Causa; University of South
Florida, Doctor of Science; New York College of Podiatric Medicine,
Doctor of Podiatric Medicine Honoris Causa; MCP Hahnemann School of
Medicine (PA) Doctor of Medical Science, Honoris Causa, University of
Massachusetts (Boston), Doctor of Science, and Doctor of Science,
Meharry Medical College.

Dr. Pinn is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1995. She received an Alumni
Achievement Award from Wellesley College in February 1993, and served on
the Wellesley College Board of Trustees. She also received the second
annual Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Virginia in
September 1992, and was honored by the UVA medical school as one of
their Alumni Luminaries in 1998. She was honored in 2005 as the speaker
for the University of Virginia Commencement. In May of 1994, Dr. Pinn
was named by Cosmopolitan magazine as one of “The Big Time_ 8 (in
feminism now) who got only where only men got before,” for her
accomplishments in medicine.

In 2004, Dr. Pinn received the President’s Achievement Award from the
American Medical Women’s Association. The Dr. Dorothy I. Height
Leadership Award for Carrying the Torch of the Earth Shaker and Dream
Maker, from the Committee for the International Salute for the Life and
Legacy of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and the Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Jacobs Institute. In 2005,
Dr. Pinn was awarded the first Dorothy I. Height Vision Award from
Meharry Medical College.