Youlo, Sylvester

Sylvester Youlo is an orthopedic surgeon, and writer. He is the author of The Boy from Pleebo, his memoir that chronicles his early life from an impoverish small town in the West African country of Liberia, to his journey of years through various refugee camps while, as a teenager, fleeing a brutal civil war in his country, and how he became a top student at an American medical school.