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

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requested that his application be reconsidered, and he then became the first African American intern at the hospital. He became a urological surgeon and founded the Vincent Sanitarium and Hospital in

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in 1929.

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