University of Virginia Health System

MEDIA ADVISORY

On Wednesday, Sept. 20, Dr. Jordan Cohen, Immediate Past President and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), will be the featured speaker for the annual Vivian Pinn Distinguished Lecture. The lecture will take place from 12:30 to1:30 p.m. in Jordan Hall and will launch the Medical Center Hour Lecture Series. 

Cohen will discuss "Closing the Diversity Gap." His talk is sponsored by the   Center on Health Disparities at the University of Virginia Health System and The Center for Humanism in Medicine at the UVa School of Medicine.

Cohen led the AAMC, which represents all accredited medical schools in the U.S. and nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, for 12 years. He is a nephrologist who has authored more than 100 research publications and is editor of Nephrology Forum. He was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine in 1994.

In his role as AAMC leader, Cohen supported programs that address the underrepresentation of minorities in the field of medicine and continues to encourage the growth of diversity in medicine.

Dr. Vivian Pinn, was the first African American female to graduate from the UVA Medical Center in the early 1970s, paving the way for many medical students of color to follow. Pinn also was the first woman to chair an academic department at Howard University's College of Medicine. She led the Department of Pathology there from 1982 to 1991. She is currently the director of the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institutes of Health.

For more information about this talk, please call the UVa Health System Public Relations office at (434) 924-5679 or visit www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/ internet/him/currentmch.cfm.

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