May Edward Chinn, MD — internal medicine (oncology), general medicine (family)
Courtesy George B. Davis, PhD
In 1926, Dr. May Edward Chinn (1896–1980) became the first African American woman to graduate from the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College (later the New York University School of Medicine). She practiced medicine in Harlem for 50 years. A tireless advocate for poor patients with advanced, often previously untreated diseases, she became a staunch supporter of new methods to detect cancer in its earliest stages.
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