Dr. William H. Sinkler was the first African American to be appointed as a consultant in chest surgery. He also served as medical director at Homer G. Phillips Hospital (1941). Sinkler was born on December 24, 1906, in Summerville, South Carolina. He attended Lincoln University where he graduated in 1928 and his M.D. from Howard […]

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