Eugenia Lathy Mobley McGinnis (1922 – May 2, 2011) was an American dentist. She was dean of the dental school and vice-president at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mobley was a dentist and professor of dentistry. From 1948 to 1950, she was director of public health dentistry for the Jefferson County Health Department in Alabama.[7] She had a dental practice in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s, while her husband was practicing as a physician at the Veterans Hospital in Tuskegee.[8][9] In 1978, she became dean of the dental school at Meharry Medical College.[10] She was the second woman to head an American dental school, after Jeanne Sinkford at Howard University in 1975.[11][12][13] She later became the medical school's vice president.[11] She oversaw Meharry's outreach for oral cancer prevention.[7] She was a charter member of the Nashville chapter of The Links.[14]
"Dental caries and periodontal conditions among Negro children in Tennessee" (1960, with Martha B. Pointer)[21]
"Some social and economic factors relating to periodontal disease among young Negroes" (1963, with Stanley H. Smith)[17]
"Testing the oral hygiene index; its use in epidemiological studies" (1964)[20]
"Is dental health education the answer?" (1967, with Barbara H. Robinson and Martha B. Pointer)[18]
"Dental program for the chronically ill and aged" (1967)[22]
"Dental status and needs in a poverty‐population of North Nashville, Tennessee" (1969, with Martha B. Pointer)[19]
Dental Hygiene Examination Review: 1060 multiple choice questions and referenced explanatory answers (1969, with Theodore Edward Bolden and Elzer S. Chandler)[23]
Personal life and legacy
Eugenia L. Mobley married physician Charles William McGinnis in 1950.[3][24][25] He died in 2002.[26] Their son William Eugene McGinnis died in 2003.[27][28] She died in 2011, aged 89 years, in Nashville.[6] The Mobley/Singleton Lecture program at Meharry is named in honor of Eugenia Mobley and her colleague J. B. Singleton.[29]
References
^"Gussie Dean Mobley". The Tennessean. 1985-12-09. p. 50. Retrieved 2022-02-16 – via Newspapers.com.
^Mobley, Eugenia L., and Martha A. Pointer. "Dental caries and periodontal conditions among Negro children in Tennessee." Tenn. Dent. AJ 40 (1960): 21-8.
