U. Conrad Vincent

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Dr. U. Conrad Vincent was an American physician.

Vincent graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1917. He applied for and was initially rejected for an internship at Bellevue Hospital; however, Mayor John Hylan requested that his application be reconsidered, and he then became the first African American intern at the hospital. [1] He became a urological surgeon and founded the Vincent Sanitarium and Hospital in Harlem in 1929. [2]

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References

  1. Oshinsky, David (2016). Bellevue: three centuries of medicine and mayhem at America's most storied hospital. Doubleday. p. 195.
  2. Rice, Mitchell F.; Jones, Woodrow (1994). Public policy and the black hospital : from slavery to segregation to integration . Greenwood Press. p.  59. ISBN   9780313263095.