Dr. Jeannette South-Paul
Trailblazer in Medicine, Education and Administration
"An obstacle is what you see when you take your eyes off the goal. If you can't see that goal, all you see are the obstacles."
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Dr. Jeannette E. South-Paul was the Andrew W. Mathieson UPMC Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine from 2001-2020, retiring in 2020. She was the FIRST Woman and the First African American to serve as a permanent chair for the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC. Dr. Jeannette South-Paul served as a Medical Corps officer in the U.S. Army, retiring in 2001 while serving as Chair of Family Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and previously as Vice President for Minority Affairs at the same institution.
Dr. South-Paul was responsible for the educational, research and clinical activities of the undergraduate and graduate medical education, faculty practice, and community arms of 3 family medicine residencies and seven ambulatory clinical sites in Allegheny County (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania and responsible for the academic missions of 5 additional UPMC Family Medicine residencies in Pennsylvania. She is a family physician with specific interests in the areas of cultural competence, maternity care, and health disparities in the community.
Dr. South-Paul has served in leadership positions in the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM), to include serving as President of the Uniformed Services of American Family Physicians (USAFP), and the STFM.
Dr. South-Paul was elected to the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine), in 2011, received the University of Pittsburgh 225th Anniversary Chancellor's Medallion and was elected into the Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2015 and received the Allegheny County Medical Society Dietrich Humanitarian Award in February, 2018.
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