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In 1992 Shine left UCLA to become President of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, D.C. Gerald S. Levey was then appointed provost of medical sciences and dean of the medical school in 1994. Levey oversaw expansion of interdisciplinary research and the establishment of a Department of Human Genetics.
He served on the Hopkins faculty until 1953 and was then hired as chief of the gastroenterology division at the 2-year-old UCLA School of Medicine. In 1962 he was appointed by UCLA Chancellor Franklin Murphy as the medical school's second dean. During his 24-year tenure - among the longest tenures of any medical school dean in the country [2 ...
She was the former dean of David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA from 2015 to 2021., [2] [1] and was the first woman to be named Dean of the UCLA medical school, and was one of just a few female medical school Deans in the United States. [3]
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) traces back to the 19th century when the institution operated as a teachers' college.It grew in size and scope for nearly four decades on two Los Angeles campuses before California governor William D. Stephens signed a bill into law in 1919 to establish the Southern Branch of the University of California. [1]
He expanded the UCLA library system, enlarged the School of Medicine's basic science programs, convinced the regents of the University of California to purchase and maintain a cyclotron for the school, and founded the Jules Stein Eye Institute and a museum now known as the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Elmer Belt (April 10, 1893 – May 17, 1980) was an American urologist. He was an early practitioner of gender-affirming surgery, an advocate for the founding of UCLA School of Medicine, and a book collector known for assembling a library of research materials about Leonardo da Vinci—the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana—which he donated to the University of California, Los Angeles between ...
The resulting probe found no evidence that the anatomy department under Pernkopf — who had ascended to become dean of the medical faculty at the University of Vienna in 1938 — had received ...
The University of California Board of Regents voted to establish a medical school as part of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) on October 19, 1945. In 1946 the California State Legislature unanimously voted $7 million to establish the new school, and Earl Warren signed it into law. [26]