Dr. Pinkerton earned her BS in Biology at the College of William and Mary, her Master's degree at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Binghamton, and her Doctorate in Biomedical Sciences at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS). She has extensive clinical, research, and teaching experience. She worked for over five years in open-heart and transplant surgery at the Medical College of Virginia and in the cardiac catheterization lab at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. She conducted research for fifteen years, most of it related to cell and molecular changes associated with cancer, genetics, cardiovascular transplantation, and cellular differentiation. She has presented her research at numerous state, national, and international science meetings and has co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and a chapter in a book about the molecular determinants of recurrence and survival in head and neck cancer.

Prior to coming to Tidewater Community College, Dr. Pinkerton taught General Biology to undergraduate students at SUNY, and both Advanced Cell Biology to graduate students and Immunology to medical students at EVMS. In addition, she has taught laboratory skills and surgical procedures to undergraduate, graduate, nursing, and medical students as well as to technicians, medical residents, fellow scientists, and physicians throughout her career. Originally hired at Tidewater Community College as an adjunct professor in Anatomy and Physiology on the Portsmouth campus, Dr. Pinkerton recently transferred to the Norfolk campus where she has revised the Anatomy and Physiology courses. She has become involved in the Women's Center and the Student Disabilities Committee and maintains active memberships in Sigma Xi (SC , an honorary scientific organization), the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Virginia Community College Association (VCCA). Dr. Pinkerton is also the Science Tutor at Norfolk Collegiate High School, where her son is a senior. For several years, she has been an assistant to the coaches of that school's varsity cross-country, swimming, and crew teams.

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Author: Anne M. Pinkerton, Ph.D.
Last Revision: May 12, 1999
E-mail: APinkerton@tcc.edu