Constellation Similarity Assertions

Born March 13, 1926, Virginia Brown attended the Medical College of Richmond, Virginia and received her diploma in 1948. She spent three years working with the Navajo tribe. In 1967, Virginia was hired as the first research nurse in the Indian Health Service, and was assigned to the new unit in Tucson. The unit had previously opened in 1965 and was then called Operations Systems Analysis Module (OPSAM). OPSAM's first mission was to analyze systems of health care and find the most efficient system for the allotted funds.

Upon her arrival in 1967 at the soon to be called Office of Research and Development, Virginia's first assignment was to "find out what... Public Health Nurses do." Shortly thereafter, she began working to adapt health information systems to computers. She also spent several years, in the late 1970's, working with the Yaqui people. Throughout her tenure, Virginia concentrated on the area of public health nursing, retiring in 1981.

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