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San Francisco, 1882. Photo from Lane Medical Archives Photo File, Box 9, folder 6. Reproduced with permission by the Stanford Medical History Center. Stanford Medicine traces its history back to 1858 when Elias Samuel Cooper, a physician in San Francisco, California, founded the first medical school in the Western United States.
When the Stanford Medical School moved south from San Francisco in 1959, the Stanford Hospital was established and was co-owned with the city of Palo Alto; it was then known as Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center. It was purchased by the university in 1968 and renamed.
In 1908, Cooper Medical College was deeded to Stanford University as a gift. [4] It became Stanford's medical institution, initially called the Stanford Medical Department and later the Stanford University School of Medicine. [5] In the 1950s, the Stanford Board of Trustees decided to move the school to the Stanford main campus near Palo Alto.
In 2012, Stanford opened the Stanford Center at Peking University, an almost 400,000-square-foot (37,000 m 2), three-story research center in the Peking University campus. Stanford became the first American university to have its own building on a major Chinese university campus. [65]
BS, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, 1952. MD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 1958; Intern, Stanford Service, San Francisco General Hospital, 1958–59; assistant resident, department of surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1959–62; Bank of America Giannini fellow, Hammersmith Hospital, London, 1962–63; Stanford University School of Medicine, senior resident ...
In 1979 he joined the Stanford faculty in internal medicine and computer science, where he directed the Stanford University Medical EXpertimental computer resource (SUMEX) and subsequently the Center for Advanced Medical Informatics at Stanford (CAMIS), continuing his work on expert systems, including ONCOCIN (an oncology decision support ...
Together with Edward Ginzton, he developed the first medical linear accelerator in the United States while he worked at the Stanford University Medical Center of Stanford University. The six million volt machine was first used for treatment in 1956, soon after the earliest linac-based radiation therapy, first used in London, England, in 1953. [1]
In 1950, the first William H. Welch Medal was awarded by American Association for the History of Medicine to honor authors in field of medical history [14] Welch Road, in the vicinity of Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, is named in his honor. [15]