Interviews, January 22 and March 18, 2024

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Corsino, Leonor

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These oral history interviews were conducted with Leonor Corsino on January 22, 2024 and March 18, 2024 by Fiorella Orozco as part of the Bass Connections Agents of Change Oral History Project.

January 22, 2024 Interview
Duration: 00:25:10 (stereo)

Duration: 00:25:08 (mono)

During the January 22, 2024 interview, Corsino discusses her motivation for pursuing medicine and endocrinology; broader advocacy for education; eye-opening experiences in the United States; her daily routine; balancing clinical practice, research, teaching, and mentoring; intersection of passion for health disparities and commitment to diversity; challenges and transition from physician-scientist to education; comments and challenges regarding career path; focus on education and advocacy work; changes in diversity and inclusion at Duke Health; continuing work in an advisory role for Duke Med Chapter of the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA); challenges and support in diversity initiatives; role in Master of Biomedical Sciences (MBS) program, encouraging future professions, and most rewarding part of her MBS role; receiving messages of success from students; initiating the Latino Initiative; hopes for the future; research at Wayne State University; impact of early mentorship; meaningful research projects; activism versus advocacy; self-perception and description; personality and roles; pivotal patient interactions; and personal life and interests.

March 18, 2024 Interview
Duration: 00:41:14 (stereo)

Duration: 00:41:11 (mono)

During the March 18, 2024 Interview, Corsino discusses her motivation to pursue health disparities research; her involvement in the Durham Community; project and initiatives, i.e., The Latino Health Project; role as Co-Director of the Community Engagement Research Initiative; community advocacy during COVID-19 pandemic; and her role in LATIN-19.

Digital files include interview metadata and transcripts (DOCX), interviews with stereo (WAV), interviews with mono (MP3), consent forms (PDF), consent form addendum (MSG), an image (PNG), and TXT files.

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Material in this series was processed using AXAEM's Electronic Records Processing module, which incorporates Bagger as a way to package electronic files with technical metadata. Captured digital content was ingested into AXAEM, where ClamAV Anti-Virus software detected and cleaned any computer viruses. The cleaned files were saved on the Duke University Medical Center Archives' secure server with a regular backup schedule. Includes 14 files totaling 764 MB that are available for research: Accession A2024.067 (14 files totaling 764 MB).

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