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Yvonne S. Thornton (born November 21, 1947) is an American obstetrician-gynecologist, musician and author, best known for her memoir, ''The Ditchdigger's Daughters''.〔(Biography of Dr. Thornton )〕 ==Background, education and career== Thornton was born in New York City and raised in Long Branch, New Jersey as the third of five children to Donald (1925-1983) and Itasker Thornton, where she graduated from Long Branch High School.〔Staff. ("Clip: Q&A with Yvonne Thornton" ), C-SPAN, January 6, 2008. Accessed November 18, 2014. "Brian Lamb: Go back to the beginning, your whole college. Where did you graduate from high school? Yvonne S. Thornton M.D.: I graduated from Long Branch High School."〕 Her father, a ditchdigger, and a veteran of World War II, had a dream for each of his six children, all African-American girls, to become doctors.〔Thornton, Yvonne S. & Coudert, (1995). ''The Ditchdigger’s Daughters: A Black Family’s Astonishing Success Story'', Kensington Publishing Co. ISBN 1-55972-271-1〕 The struggle and story of this journey in spite of economic, racial and gender-based boundaries later became the subject of ''The Ditchdigger's Daughters''.〔 She cited her experiences in her childhood as being highly influential on her choice to attend medical school. In 1969, Thornton graduated from Monmouth University, and was accepted to medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.〔〔(Thornton on ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'' )〕 In 1979, Thornton and her husband volunteered for active duty in the United States Navy, received her commission as Lieutenant Commander in the Medical Corps and was stationed at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland (Hospital of the President). In 1981, Thornton became the first African-American woman in the United States to become board-certified in maternal-fetal medicine.〔 She subsequently practiced at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York, Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey and St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York throughout much of the next two decades. Her expertise as a pioneer in chorionic villus sampling drew the attention of Oprah Winfrey, who first invited her on her show in 1993. In 1995, Thornton wrote ''The Ditchdigger's Daughters'' about her parent's dream of making their children doctors; the success of the book caught Winfrey's eye and landed Thornton a return appearance on the show.〔 ''The Ditchdigger's Daughters'' was critically acclaimed, translated into 19 languages and was turned into a television movie produced by the Family Channel in 1997, for which Kimberly Elise won Best Supporting Actress at the 1997 CableACE Awards.〔(The Ditchdigger's Daughters Movie Featured in ''Jet Magazine'' )〕〔("A Radical Fundamentalist Approach to Parenting" (review of ''The Ditchdigger's Daughters'' ), aalbc.com.〕〔()〕 In 1996, Thornton received her Masters in Public Health degree in Health Policy and Management from the Columbia University School of Public Health, and in 1997 she published her second book, entitled ''Woman to Woman''. She eventually rose to the rank of full professor and was appointed to the faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College as Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2003. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yvonne Thornton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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