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Yale School of Medicine

The Yale School of Medicine is the medical school at Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813.[2]

Type

Private medical school

1810 (1810)

Yale University

Nancy J. Brown

5,166[1]

1,977[1]

New Haven
,
Connecticut
,
United States

medicine.yale.edu

The primary teaching hospital for the school is Yale New Haven Hospital. The school is home to the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, one of the largest modern medical libraries which is known for its historical collections. The faculty includes 70 National Academy of Sciences members, 47 National Academy of Medicine members, and 13 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.[1]


For the class of 2022, the school received 4,968 applications to fill 104 seats. The median GPA for the class was 3.89, and the median MCAT was 521.[3]

(1845–1863): Professor of Anatomy and Physiology[12]

Charles Hooker

Charles Augustus Lindsley (1863–1885): Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, later the Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine

Herbert Eugene Smith (1885–1910): physician and chemist

[12]

George Blumer (1910–1920)

[13]

Milton Winternitz (1920–1935): [14]

pathologist

Stanhope Bayne-Jones (1935–1940): physician and [15]

bacteriologist

(1940–1947)[16]

Francis Gilman Blake

(1947–1952): physician and biochemist[17]

Cyril Norman Hugh Long

Vernon W. Lippard (1952–1967)

[18]

(1967–1972): psychiatrist[19][20]

Frederick Carl Redlich

(1972–1973): physician and author[21]

Lewis Thomas

Robert Berliner (1973–1984)

[22]

Leon Rosenberg (1984–1991)

[23]

Robert M. Donaldson (acting) (1991–1992)

[24]

Gerard N. Burrow (1992–1997)

[25]

(1997–2003): pediatrician, lawyer and former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration[26]

David Aaron Kessler

Dennis Spencer (acting) (2003–2004): [26]

neurosurgeon

Robert Alpern (2004–2020): [27]

nephrologist

(2020–present)[28][29]

Nancy J. Brown

Before 1845, there was no dean. Nathan Smith, followed by Jonathan Knight, provided leadership in the early years.[7]

: physician and filmmaker

Gretchen Berland

(2015–): Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience

Hilary Blumberg

(1984–): Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics, uncovered the action of chaperonins in his study of protein folding

Arthur L. Horwich

(1970–): Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Nolecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Akiko Iwasaki

: Co-chair of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Task Force

Marcella Nunez-Smith

: associate professor, director of the Yale AIDS Program clinical trials unit

Onyema Ogbuagu

(2008–): Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Chairman of the Department of Cell Biology, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

James Rothman

: The New York Times Diagnosis columnist, technical advisor for TV show House, M.D.

Lisa Sanders

(1970–): Sterling Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry

Joan Steitz

List of Yale University people

List of Ivy League medical schools

Official site

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