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Personal Biography of Vanessa Northington Gamble, MD, Ph.D.
University Professor of Medical Humanities and Professor of History, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
Vanessa Northington Gamble, a physician and medical historian, chaired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee in 1997 that secured a presidential for the treatment of Africa American patients. Before coming to GW, she taught at Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts, Hampshire College, the University of Wisconsin, and Johns Hopkins University. Appointed head of the Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC) Division of Community and Minority Programs in 1999, Professor Gamble has served as consultant or committee member on a range of projects run by national medical organizations, including the Institute of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Foundation for AIDS Research.
Dr. Gamble received her bachelor's degree in medical sociology from Hampshire College and her medical and doctorate degrees in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.