U.S. National Institutes of Health

Jeannette E. South-Paul, MD — general medicine (family)

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In 1973, in order to pay for her medical school expenses at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Jeanette E. South-Paul (b. 1953) joined ROTC, the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. Twenty-eight years later, Colonel Jeanette South-Paul, MD, became the first woman and the first African American to serve as chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

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