- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (3 video files (1 hr., 21 min., 20 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Dr. Billie Wright Adams
- Dr. Billie Wright Adams
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 994208657
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dr. Billie Wright Adams.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
012120
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Adele Hodge, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2002 September 17.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Medical Professor Pediatrician.
- Added Author
Adams, Billie Wright, Dr., interviewee.
Hodge, Adele, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.