Congratulations to Vonda Douglas-Nikitin, M.D., for receiving this year's Vivian W. Pinn, MD Award for Excellence in Leadership in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine presented by the Society of Black Pathologists for demonstrating leadership and inspiring excellence in her 20+ years of teaching, mentoring and practice in the field of pathology.

Dr. Douglas-Nikitin has served as the medical director of the Flow Cytometry Laboratory since she joined Beaumont Hospital (now Corewell Health) in 2004. She is currently an assistant dean for Diversity & Inclusion and associate professor of Pathology for OUWB. Read full bio below in the Meet the Team tab.

The award is in honor of the accomplishments of Vivian W. Pinn, M.D., who was the only Black woman in her graduating class from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, the first Black woman to chair an academic pathology department in the United States, and the first full-time director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).