Jeannette south paul lifetime achievement 2011
Colonel Jeannette South-Paul (b. 1953) is an African-American physician; the first African-American and first woman to have a permanent chair at the University of Pittsburgh.
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- Jeannette south paul lifetime achievement 2011
- Jeannette south paul lifetime achievement
- Early life and education
- Career and research
- Honors and awards
- References
Jeannette south paul lifetime achievement
Early life and education
In 1975, South-Paul earned a bachelor's degree in medical technology from the University of Pennsylvania. She then attended the University of Pittsburgh for her medical education, graduating in 1979, then completed postgraduate medical education in family practice at Ft. Gordon, Georgiain 1982 and the University of North Carolina in 1984.
Career and research
South-Paul has dedicated her career to improving community health and rectifying healthcare disparities in America, especially those that affect people in poverty and people of color. In 1983, she became a professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), where she taught family medicine and researched the benefits of exercise and maternal-child health along with her work on health disparities. In 2001, she became the first woman and first African-American person at the University of Pittsburgh to hold a permanent chair position, when she was appointed the Andrew W. Mathieson Professor Department Chair.