Dr.Daniel Hale Williams
1856 - 1931
Williams, Daniel Hale, 1858–1931, American surgeon, b.
Hollidaysburg, Pa., M.D. Northwestern Univ., 1883. As surgeon of the South Side
Dispensary in Chicago (1884–91), he became keenly aware of the lack of
facilities for training African Americans like himself as doctors and nurses.
As a result he organized the Provident Hospital, the first black hospital in
the United States. In 1893, Williams performed the first successful closure of
a wound of the heart and pericardium. In the same year President Cleveland
appointed him surgeon in chief of Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, D.C., and
during his five-year tenure there he reorganized the hospital and provided a
training school for African American nurses. From 1899 until his death he was
professor of clinical surgery at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn.
Williams, Daniel Hale,25-12-2012,http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/williams-daniel-hale.html#ixzz2DzaHJ9MW
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