Lobby of Strong Memorial Hospital 1950

A ief historyThe School of and Dentistry

In 1910, Abraham Flexner, under the auspices of the The opened in 1925 and Strong Memorial Outpatient pharmacy 1952 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Hospital opened its doors as a 250-bed community facility published a report on medical schools that led to a in 1926. The School of Medicine Strong Memorial Hospital Emergency Dept. 1969 revolution in how medicine was taught across the country. and Dentistry graduated its first class in 1929. Heart-lung machine 1962

By 1920, Flexner approached Dr. Benjamin Rush Rhees, Whipple’s vision, built on the philanthropy of George then president of the University of Rochester, with the Eastman, was a school and a hospital under one roof that idea of establishing a medical school at the university integrated basic science and clinical practice. Today, that that would utilize his revolutionary ideals in medical concept of physically integrating patient care and academics education. Flexner and Rhees then approached George under one roof is still going strong. George Hoyt Whipple and Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, to help back the Abraham Flexner, 1954 Students in the School are educated by the Double Helix idea financially. Additional monies came from the General Curriculum, integrating the basic science and clinical Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation and the medicine strands of medical education and weaving them on the cover: daughters of the late Henry Alvah Strong, former business throughout the four-year curriculum. Clockwise, from top left: School of partner to George Eastman, to build a university, medical Medicine department chairs 1925; school, and hospital on land located on the southern The School of Medicine and Dentistry transformed the University President Rush Rhees laying boundaries of the City of Rochester near the banks of the future of medicine in Rochester and nationwide when it the medical school's cornerstone; created the biopsychosocial model of education. Developed original bronze plaque now located in Genesee River. a corridor in the Miner Library; Strong by Drs. George Engel and John Romano, this method The first dean of the medical school, Nobel Laureate Memorial Hospital entrance 1930; systematically considers biological, psychological, and social George Hoyt Whipple, M.D., came to Rochester in original lobby of Strong Memorial factors and their complex interactions in understanding 1921, recruited from the University of California at San Hospital 1926 (now the Miner Library health, illness, and delivery. reading room); and George Whipple Francisco. Whipple helped shape the school from its addresses medical staff 1926, in an inception, hiring faculty and staff and supervising the auditorium later named after him. design and construction of buildings. Expenses for the School from the first Admission requirements from the Medical library circa 1945 student handbook School’s first bulletin 1925 1959 2001 2006 1920 1934 1946 1970s NIH awards its largest George Whipple is grant ever to the University 2013 awarded the Nobel Prize selecting the School as one 1969 1990 1990s The University is named a for his research that of 12 institutions to lead the Marshall A. Lichtman is Center for AIDS Research 1925 led to the alleviation of emerging field of clinical and appointed dean. by NIH, a designation that The first class of 20 pernicious anemia. translational research. infuses $7.5 million into men and 2 women HIV/AIDS work across the enters the School Wilmot Cancer Center University and places it on September 17 The first heart launches a Cancer Stem Cell amongst the best in the and begins a Arthur Kornberg, a 1941 graduate of the transplant at the Richard Burton leads a team of Research Program, one of nation for research to 20-week course in 1927 School, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medical Center orthopedists that developed a only three formal programs in improve the prevention anatomy. M. Elizabeth Marsh Medicine, for his groundbreaking test- is performed by George Eastman gives $4 million to breakthrough surgery for patients 1980s Arthur Moss conducts the U.S. at the time. and treatment of the (Physiology-includes The building of Strong Memorial Hospital’s tube synthesis of DNA. H. Todd Massey. match a $5 million grant by John D. with a common type of arthritis of Ira Shoulson directs groundbreaking research Wing R, one of the first psychiatric facilities disease. Vital Economics) is the Ground is broken for the new Rockefeller, Jr., making possible the Warren M. Sperry the thumb. The operation, known the clinical trial that proving implantable defibrillators in the nation to function as an integral part first woman to receive Strong Memorial Hospital. School of Medicine and Dentistry. A plan (biochemistry) internationally as the “Burton establishes Deprenyl prevented sudden death in high- a Ph.D. Degree. of a university hospital. 2002 2010 to develop the School in connection with receives the first 1955 procedure,” is recognized as the gold as a treatment for risk patients. His studies have David S. Guzick Mark B. Taubman Donald G. Anderson is the University of Rochester is announced. Ph.D. Degree. standard therapy for this condition. Parkinson’s disease. saved hundreds of thousands of is appointed is appointed dean. appointed dean. lives around the world. dean.

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Lowell A. Goldsmith is Edward M. Hundert is Frank E. Young is appointed dean. appointed dean. appointed dean. 1996 2000 1979 James Lowell Orbison Robert J. Joynt is The Medical Center One of the greatest is appointed dean. appointed dean. is the first in the breakthroughs in cancer 1966 nation to implant prevention had its origins Strong Memorial 1985 an investigational at the Medical Center. The The Health Sciences Center Hospital opens its Medical Center researchers medical device that human papillomavirus for Computational Innovation doors to patients on were first to administer lung (HPV) vaccine became opens and is home to IBM's next George Engel John Romano lowers blood pressure January 4. surfactant to premature infants, by activating the available when it was generation supercomputer—the George Hoyt Whipple is recruited as The School transforms medical education to train in dramatically improving their approved by the FDA to Blue Gene/Q—making it one of Raymond Gramiak publishes the David H. Smith Porter Anderson body’s natural blood 1926 treating the “whole” patient through the “biopsychosocial” model survival rates. Surfactants are prevent cervical cancer. the 5 most powerful university- the first dean. He spends the next first study using ultrasound with pressure regulation created by George Engel and John Romano. now used around the world. The FDA approves the Haemophilus influenza type b It was created in part by based supercomputing sites in the few years organizing the School. an injected contrast agent to systems. The first graduating class of the School. (Hib) vaccine. The pioneering work in the development virologists William Bonnez, nation. The facility is dedicated to 1940s map the anatomy of the beating 1983 1921 of the vaccine—which has virtually wiped out a leading 2005 Richard Reichman, and using cutting-edge computational 1929 heart leading directly to the birth cause of meningitis in preschoolers—was done by Robert Rose. power to solve health care's most of modern endocardiography. David H. Smith and Porter W. Anderson. 2006 complex problems. School of Medicine1968 and1990 Dentistry2012