“I was inspired to pursue a career in medicine because of Dr. Yvonne Sylvain, the first Black female to graduate from medical school in Haiti in 1948.”
Valerie Brutus, MD, director of breast surgery at Hartford HealthCare’s Cancer Institute at St. Vincent’s Medical Center, graduated from that same medical school and talks about her personal journey.
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