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DESCRIPTION:Yvonne Thornton\, author of the national bestselling family m
 emoir\, The Ditchdigger&rsquo\;s Daughters\, will talk about her newest 
 memoir\, Something to Prove\, and her careeron Thursday\, February 9 at 
 6:30 p.m. in Slonim Living Room on the Sarah Lawrence College campus.\nD
 r. Thornton is a double-board certified specialist in obstetrics\, gynec
 ology and maternal-fetalmedicine and is a former departmental vice chair
  of OB/GYN at Jamaica Hospital MedicalCenter in New York. She is now a c
 onsultant in perinatology and clinical professor of obstetricsand gyneco
 logy at New York Medical College in New York.\nDr. Thornton is the first
  black woman in the United States to be board-certified in high-riskobst
 etrics. She was the first African-American woman to be invited to become
  an oral examinerfor the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and
  a life fellow of the New YorkObstetrical Society and the New York Acade
 my of Medicine.\nHer family memoir\, The Ditchdigger&rsquo\;s Daughters\
 , was adapted into an award-winningmovie and translated into 19 language
 s. Her new memoir entitled Something To Prove\, wasnamed the grand prize
  winner at the 2011 New York Book Festival. Her other books includeInsid
 e Information for Women\, Woman to Woman and Primary Care of the Obstetr
 ician andGynecologist.\nFor more information on this event\, sponsored b
 y the Women&rsquo\;s History GraduateProgram at Sarah Lawrence College\,
  please contact Tara James at (914) 395-2405 ortjames@sarahlawrence.edu.
 \nFounded in 1972\, the Master of Arts Program in Women&rsquo\;s History
  at Sarah Lawrence wasthe first to offer a graduate degree in the field.
  The program introduces students to the rapidlyexpanding literature in w
 omen&rsquo\;s history\, feminist theory\, and gender studies\; trains th
 em inhistorical research and interpretation\; and encourages them to com
 bine scholarship with activismboth within and beyond the academy.
URL:http://chappaqua.patch.com/events/best-selling-author-dr-yvonne-thorn
 ton
SUMMARY:Best-Selling Author Dr. Yvonne Thornton
LOCATION:1 Mead Way\, Bronxville\, NY 10708: 1 Mead Way\, Bronxville\, NY
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