Background
McMillin, Jeanie Byrd was born on September 26, 1939 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Walter Louis and Frances Elizabeth (Austell) McMillin.
McMillin, Jeanie Byrd was born on September 26, 1939 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. Daughter of Walter Louis and Frances Elizabeth (Austell) McMillin.
Bachelor, Converse College, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry, University North Carolina, 1967. Doctor of Science (honorary), Converse College, 1988.
Research associate, instructor U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1967-1968. Research associate Cornell Medical College, New York City, 1968-1969. Instructor Baylor College Medicine, Houston, 1969-1972, assistant professor, 1972-1980, associate professor medicine, biochemistry and pediatrics, 1980-1985, professor, 1985-1986;professor medicine and cell biology, director cardiac biochemistry University of Alabama-Birmingham, 1986-1989.
Professor pathology University Texas Health Science Center, Houston, 1989, director graduate studies, 1992.
Consultant National Institutes of Health, 1979, member cardiovascular pulmonary study section, 1982-1986. Ad hoc consultant board science counselorsNat.
Institute on Aging, 1987. Member central research review committee American Heart Association, 1981-1986, Alabama affiliate, 1986-1989, Texas affiliate, 1990, member Executive Board, program and nominating commission Council on Basic Science.
Cardiol. advising committee National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1987-1991, chair basic science subcommittee, 1989-1991.
Fulbright fellow in chemistry, 1961-1962. National Aeronautics and Space Administration fellow, 1962-1966. United States Public Health Service fellow, 1966-1967.
Grantee American Heart Association, 1978-1981, Muscular Dystrophy Association, 1980-1983, National Institutes of Health, 1977.
Member International Study Group for Research in Cardiac Metabolism, Biophysics Society, Cardiac MuscleSoc., American Society Biological Chemists, American Physiological Society (fellow cardiovascular section), Sigma Xi (treasurer U. Ala-Birmingham chapter).
Married Wallace Barry VanWinkle, 1987. Children: Elizabeth, David Emerson.