New York University School off Medicine

NYU school off medicine is the medical college of the Université of New York or NYU. It was founded in 1841 under the name of University Medical College. Its campus is located at New York (with the the United States) in the district of Murray Hill, between the 34 {{E}} and 30e street, along the First Avenue on the island of Manhattan. It accommodates several hospitals (Bellevue Hospital, Tisch Hospital, Rusk Institute, Hospital for Joint Diseases, Dental College, etc), like three important research institutes biomedical: Skirball Institute, Joan and Joel Smillow Research Center and ten departments of research of School off Medicine itself.

In 2006, it gathered some 26 pulpits of medicine, 360 doctors full time, 175 doctors attached, 975 medical students, 76 students in M.D./Ph.D. and 788 researchers post-doctoral (research and private clinic).

History

In 1841, the College off Medicine is created within the University of New York. The medical school is amalgamated with the Bellevue Medical College , in 1898, to form the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College (medical college of the university and the Bellevue hospital). The current name was adopted only in 1960.

In 1854, after the efforts of faculty to make accept measurement, the dissection of human body is legalized in New York. In 1866, the professors of the University of New York wrote a report/ratio for the Council of Hygiene and the Public health which led to the creation of the Department of the Health of the town of New York. The same year, the university opened its first private clinic of external consultations. In 1872, Steven Smith founded the American Public Health Association . In 1884 is created the Carnegie Laboratory , the first equipment of the country devoted to teaching and research on the Bactériologie and the Pathologie. In 1899, Walter Reed, a former student, discovers the mode of transmission of the Yellow fever by the mosquito. In 1932, the first American department of legal medicine is opened with the NYU. In 1941, it is with the turn of the department of physical therapy and rehabilitation to be created. The Institute and the Department of environmental Médecine east establishes in 1964. In 1980, a professor of the NYU, Saul Krugman, develops the first vaccine against the Hépatite B. The year 1993 sees the opening of the Institute Biomolecular Skirball de Médecine at the medical college. In 1998, the fusion of the health system of the NYU with the hospital of the Mount the Sinai leads to the birth of the Mount the Sinai NYU Health . This joint organization included the hospital of the Sinai Mount, the hospital of the Sinai Mount of the Queens, Tisch Hospital, the Rusk Institute off Rehabilitation Medicine, Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopedic Institute and the New York Downtown Hospital. In 2006, Smilow Research Center opened its doors, thus providing a new site for transverse research, common to nine medical fields.

Outstanding personalities of the NYU School off Medicine

See also: List of personalities of the University of New York

Baruj Benacerraf, Immunologist, Professor 1956-1968, Nobel Prize of physiology and medicine in 1980.
Frederick Cook, Doctor, M.D. 1890, and polar explorer.
Avram Hershko, Assistant professor 1998 -, Nobel Prize of chemistry in 2004.
Eric R. Kandel, Psychoanalyste, Psychiatrist, M.D. 1955, Nobel Prize of physiology and medicine in 2000.
Severo Ochoa, Professor 1942-1974, Nobel Prize of physiology and medicine in 1959.
Jonas Salk, Doctor, M.D. 1938, and discoverer of the vaccine against the Poliomyelitis.
Jan Vilcek, Professor 1965, discoverer of the Remicade®.

External bonds

Site of Medical NYU Center

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