Background
Pinn, Vivian W. was born in 1941 in Halifax, Virginia, AMERICAN WOMEN0.
federal agency administrator pathologist
Pinn, Vivian W. was born in 1941 in Halifax, Virginia, AMERICAN WOMEN0.
Bachelor, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, 1963. Doctor of Medicine, University Virginia School Medicine, 1967.
Intern pathology Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1967-1968, research fellow, 1968-1970. Assistant pathologist Tufts University New England Medical Center Hospital, 1970-1977, pathologist, 1977-1982. Assistant to associate professor pathology Tufts University School Medicine, 1971-1982, assistant dean student affairs, 1974-1982.
Professor, department chair pathology Howard University College Medicine, Washington, 1982-1991. Director Office Research on Women's Health (ORWH), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, since 1991, associate director research women's health, ORWH, since 1994. President National Medical Association, 1989—1990.
Co-chair National Institutes of Health Working Group Women in biomedical Careers.
Fellow: American Academy Arts & Sciences.