Our Team

Walda S. Pinn, MD, is a Board-Certified Obstetrician/ Gynecologist and Fellow of the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Dr. Pinn recently resigned on September 1st, 2023, as a member / partner of Unified Women’s Healthcare of North Carolina at Central Carolina Ob/Gyn in Greensboro. Dr. Pinn is currently working as a locums tenens physician, acting as an  advanced practice provider who fills in for another clinician while he or she is unavailable. The locum tenens  assignments are in rural communities in dire need of OB/GYNs. This enables Dr. Pinn  to provide quality care where medical  help is most needed. Her transition to Locums tenens was to keep her skills up to date, work with various diverse populations and  different colleagues, offering a fresh perspective on medicine and expanding her  professional expertise. Dr. Pinn  a member of the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The North Carolina Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,  American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated.

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After graduating from Columbia University, she researched human papillomavirus (HPV) at Northshore/LIJ while attaining her master’s degree in biology from St. John’s University. After receiving her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2006, she began her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at New York Medical College Brooklyn/Queens then completed her Ob/Gyn training with the US Army at the San Antonio Uniformed Health Science Education Consortium both as an active-duty physician and soldier. After her graduation from residency in 2010, she served as a staff and teaching attending at the San Antonio Military Medical Center, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. She was then a teaching attending and staff at Martin Army Community Hospital, Fort Benning Georgia.

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She has worked in private practice, a community hospital, academic medical centers, and combat casualty setting performing trauma care for a diverse array of patients. For four years, she was an active-duty physician in the U.S. Army and in 2012-2013, Dr. Pinn served in combat in Jalalabad, Afghanistan as Officer in Charge / Battalion Surgeon at the Battalion Aid Station  and Women’s Health Consultant in Operation Enduring Freedom XIII.  After her honorable discharge in 2013, she joined a private practice in the Upper Westside of Manhattan and served as clinical instructor at Mt. Sinai Medical Center.

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Pursuing a slower lifestyle, she moved to Greensboro in 2015, where she appeared on Fox 8 House Call to discuss “Women’s Health After Having a Baby.” and CBS WFMY news in the feature: “Why are Black Women Dying During Childbirth”, discussing the racial disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality.

Dr. Pinn’s patients mean everything to her. A keen listener with a compassionate bedside matter, she is committed to addressing her patients’ needs and providing care as she would for a family member. Dr. Pinn is very loving to all her patients. Her warm and sensitive care promotes successful outcomes. She is committed to providing high-quality care to patients and has a genuine passion for the physical, emotional, and overall health of women. She has delivered thousands of babies including numerous vaginal births after cesarean section (VBAC). In addition, she has comprehensive experience performing gynecologic surgery, including intricate minimally invasive laparoscopic surgeries and procedures for female urinary incontinence.

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While conducting various hospital and clinical functions, she has faced and has overcome grave personal challenges. In 1986, her mother became disabled after being shot over nine times in her home. She cared for her mother during her teenage and adult years. Three days after returning home from Afghanistan, her mother passed away. In 2016, she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. She underwent a double mastectomy and chemotherapy. Now she is a five-year breast cancer survivor. Through it all, she has persevered, crediting her success to her unrelenting faith in God and the unwavering support of family and friends.

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In her spare time, she enjoys reading, painting, drawing  and spending time with family and friends and taking care of her “fur babies”: Michonne and Brodie. She is an ordained minister and dedicates much of her time to her church ministry, and  biblical teaching. She believes that traveling as a Locums provider helps her to acclimatize to different clinical situations, explore the country and still have free time to spend with family and friends. This allows her to have the ability to control her own schedule and provide care to underserved communities around the world. Her long-term desire is to do mission work in underserved countries where ob/gyn care is sparse.

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Dr. Pinn also does speaking engagements throughout the nation telling of her breast cancer survival and encouraging other survivors.

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Moses Cone Medical Center

Affiliate Medical Staff Obstetrics and Gynecology Current Privileges

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Obstetrics

Admit, evaluate, diagnose, treat, and provide consultation to adolescent and adult female patients and/ or provide medical and surgical care of the female reproductive system and associated disorders, including major medical diseases that are complicating factors in pregnancy. May provide care to patients in the intensive care setting in conformance with unit policies. Assess, stabilize, and determine the disposition of patients with emergent conditions consistent with medical staff policy regarding emergency and consultative call services. The core privileges in this specialty include the procedures on the attached procedures list and such other procedures that are extensions of the same techniques and skills.

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Gynecology

Admit, evaluate, diagnose, treat, and provide consultation and the pre-, intra-, and postoperative care necessary to correct or treat female patients of all ages presenting with injuries and disorders of the female reproductive system and the genitourinary system and non-surgically treat disorders and injuries of the mammary glands. May provide care to patients in the intensive care setting in conformance with unit policies. Assess, stabilize, and determine the disposition of patients with emergent conditions consistent with medical staff policy regarding emergency and consultative call services. The core privileges in this specialty include the procedures on the attached procedures list and such other procedures that are extensions of the same techniques and skills.

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Core Procedures List

This is not intended to be an all-encompassing procedures list. It defines the types of activities/procedures/ privileges that the majority of practitioners in this specialty perform at this organization and inherent activities/procedures/privileges requiring similar skill sets and techniques.

Performance of history and physical exam

Obstetrics

• Amnioinfusion

• Amniotomy

• Application of internal fetal and uterine monitors

• Augmentation and induction of labor

• Cesarean hysterectomy, cesarean section

• Cerclage

• Cervical biopsy or conization of cervix in pregnancy

• External version of breech

• Hypogastric artery ligation

• Immediate care of the newborn (including resuscitation and intubation)

• Interpretation of fetal monitoring

• Management of high-risk pregnancy, inclusive of such conditions as pre-eclampsia, postdates, third trimester bleeding, intrauterine growth restriction, premature rupture of membranes, premature labor, and placental abnormalities

• Management of patients with or without medical, surgical, or obstetrical complications for normal labor, including toxemia, threatened abortion, normal puerperal patient, normal antepartum and postpartum care, postpartum complications, and fetal demise

• Manual removal of placenta, uterine curettage

• Medication to induce fetal lung maturity

• Normal spontaneous vaginal delivery

• Obstetrical diagnostic procedures, including ultrasonography and other relevant imaging techniques

• Operative vaginal delivery (including the use of obstetric forceps and/or the vacuum extractor)

• Performance of breech and multifetal deliveries

• Pudendal and paracervical blocks

• Repair of fourth-degree perineal lacerations or of cervical or vaginal lacerations

• Treatment of medical and surgical complications of pregnancy

• Vaginal birth after previous cesarean section

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Gynecology

• Adnexal surgery, including ovarian cystectomy, oophorectomy, salpingectomy, and conservative procedures for treatment of ectopic pregnancy

• Aspiration of breast masses

• Cervical biopsy, including conization

• Colpocleisis

• Culdoplasty

• Colposcopy

• Cystoscopy as part of a gynecological procedure

• Diagnostic and therapeutic dilation and curettage

• Diagnostic and operative laparoscopy (other than tubal sterilization)

• Endometrial ablation

• Laparotomy (other than tubal sterilization)

• Gynecologic diagnostic procedures, including ultrasonography and other relevant imaging techniques

• Hysterectomy - abdominal and vaginal

• Hysterosalpingography

• Hysteroscopy, diagnostic or ablative, including the use of the resection technique

• Incision and drainage of pelvic abscesses

• Incidental appendectomy

• Metroplasty

• Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH)

• Loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP)

• Myomectomy, abdominal

• Operation for treatment of early-stage carcinoma of the vulva, vagina, endometrium, ovary, or cervix

• Operation for treatment of urinary stress incontinence, vaginal approach, retropubic urethral suspension, and sling procedure

• Operation for uterine bleeding (abnormal and dysfunctional)

• Operations for sterilization (tubal ligation)

• Operative management of pelvic pain

• Diagnosis and management of pelvic floor dysfunction, including operations for its correction (e.g., repair of rectocele, enterocele, cystocele, or pelvic prolapse)

• Tuboplasty and other infertility surgery (not microsurgical)

• Uterosacral vaginal vault fixation, paravaginal repair

• Uterovaginal, vesicovaginal, rectovaginal, and other fistula repair

• Vulvar biopsy

• Vulvectomy, simple

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