The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Dr. Asa Yancey, Sr.

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Dr. Asa Yancey, Sr.

3/19/2012

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2012.056

Surgeon, medical professor, and medical director Dr. Asa Yancey, Sr. (1916 - 2013 ) served as the medical director of Grady Memorial Hospital and dean at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. He also created the first accredited surgical training program for black doctors in Georgia. Yancey was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 3/19/2012, in Atlanta, Georgia. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 35m 09s

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Yancey, Asa G., 1916-

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Dr. Asa G. Yancey, Sr. (1916- ), Morehouse (1937), M.D. University of Michigan (1941), studied under Charles Drew, First Lieut. U.S. Army Medical Corps, Chief of Surgery, Tuskegee Veterans Adminsitration Hospital (1948-1958), first African American physician at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital and later its medical director, former professor of surgery at Emory University; active in many health-related community organizations. From the description of Dr. Asa G. Yancey, Sr., M.D. pap...