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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]
Reproduced with permission by the Stanford Medical History Center. He then settled in San Francisco, where his uncle, Elias Samuel Cooper, also a physician, had just established the first medical college on the West Coast of the United States in 1858. The medical school was chartered by the College of the Pacific (now the University of the ...
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 ...
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]
Stanford University School of Medicine alumni (150 P) Pages in category "Stanford University medicine" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.