The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dr. Billie Wright Adams.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (3 video files (1 hr., 21 min., 20 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2002.187
Subjects

Other author/creatorAdams, Billie Wright, Dr., interviewee.
Other author/creatorHodge, Adele, interviewer.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Dr. Billie Wright Adams
Portion of title Dr. Billie Wright Adams
Abstract Medical professor and pediatrician Dr. Billie Wright Adams was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, and received her B. S. degree from Fisk University in 1950. The following year, she received a M. S. degree in zoology from the University of Indiana in Bloomington. Adams then obtained a M.D. degree from Howard University in 1960. She focused her efforts on pediatric medicine, completing her residency at Cook County Children's Hospital in Chicago. For over twenty-years, Adams served as an associate clinical professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. From 1981 to 1987, Adams was the Assistant Program Director of Mercy Hospital & Medical Center's Department of Pediatrics. She has also served as acting bureau chief of the Chicago Department of Health and as president of the Chicago Pediatrics Society. In 1997, the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics named her Pediatrician of the Year.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Adele Hodge, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Chicago, Illinois 2002 September 17.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2002.187 HistoryMakers

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