By on February 12, 2025 - 9:35am
The Medical Center Archives is happy to announce that a new collection and finding aid are available online for Another Perspective: An Oral History Project of Women of Color in Medicine. Pauline Flaum-Dunoyer, MD, a student at Weill Cornell Medicine from 2018 to 2023, conducted this oral history project. Flaum-Dunoyer attended a lecture on the history of medicine in 2019 and noticed that the contributions of women and people of color were underrepresented or missing. Soon after the lecture, Flaum-Dunoyer connected with Nicole Milano (Head, Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine), who was working on efforts to expand representation in the archival collections. Together, they decided that Flaum-Dunoyer would conduct an oral history interview with Carol Storey-Johnson, MD, a professor of medicine and senior associate dean of education who had just retired after 45 years at Weill Cornell Medicine. Flaum-Dunoyer interviewed Storey-Johnson in the Medical Center Archives in November 2019 with the goal of adding Storey-Johnson's voice to the historical record.
The COVID-19 pandemic and social unrest of 2020 following the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Elijah McClain prompted Flaum-Dunoyer to expand the scope of the project with the Medical Center Archives—a decision supported by Geraldine McGinty, MD (E. Darracott Vaughan, Jr., M.D. Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs) and Nicole Milano. Between 2021 and 2023 Flaum-Dunoyer conducted remote oral history interviews with an additional twelve women of color affiliated with Weill Cornell Medicine. The project concluded in 2023.
The finding aid can be found online here.
The collection is open for research and transcripts can be viewed online here. Other files, including audio files, in this collection are available upon request.
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