Ajovi Scott-Emuakpor discusses his career in pediatrics and his experience in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University
Ajovi Scott-Emuakpor discusses his international career as a geneticist, physician, faculty member and administrator, much of it spent in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development at Michigan State University. Ajovi recalls coming to MSU from Nigeria in 1965 as an undergraduate, joining the department as a graduate student in 1968 and working with the original faculty. He describes the college's early curriculum and focus on patient care and recognizes the uniqueness of pioneering efforts now copied at many other institutions. Ajovi also talks about returning to Nigeria to become Director of the Institute of Child Health and later coming back to MSU as a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development. He says that collegiality in the department has now waned in the face of administration changes, retirements, and plans to move the school to Grand Rapids. Sociology Professor Meritus Dr. David J. Kallen conducts the interview as part of the MSU Department of Pediatrics and Human Development Oral History Project.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2005-12-13
- Interviewees
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Scott-Emuakpor, Ajovi Blessing
- Interviewers
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Kallen, David J. (David Johnson), 1929-
- Recordist
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Vincent Voice Library
- Contributors
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Michigan State University. Department of Pediatrics and Human Development. Oral History Project
- Subjects
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Scott-Emuakpor, Ajovi Blessing
Michigan State University. Department of Pediatrics and Human Development
Michigan State University
Education--Curricula
Medical colleges--Faculty
Medicine--Study and teaching (Higher)
Pediatrics
Michigan--East Lansing
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 01:11:47
- Venue Note
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Interviewed by David J. Kallen and recorded by the Vincent Voice Library, Dec. 13, 2005.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 15985
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b8234877
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