The Tulane University School of Medicine is located in

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Tulane University Tulane University, officially the Tulane University of Louisiana, is a private university, private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by seven young medical doctors, it turned into ...

. The school is located in the Medical District of the

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History

The school was founded in 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana and is the 15th oldest medical school in the United States and the 2nd oldest in the deep south. The first classes were held in 1835 at a variety of locations, including

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and the Strangers Unitarian Church.

Founding

In October 1832, Dr. Warren Stone, a young physician who received his medical degree from the Medical School of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was one of 108 passengers aboard an ill-fated brig, the Amelia, which set sail from New York to New Orleans carrying valuable cargo. On the fourth day out, a terrific storm occurred; the passengers were put below and the hatches were battened down. When the storm lifted, it was discovered that twenty-five passengers were in advanced stages of cholera. On October 30, the Amelia attempted unsuccessfully to make the Charleston harbor. Leaking badly, she was beached on Folly Island and had to be burned. Her passengers were made as comfortable as possible. Charleston Port authorities quarantined the island and put a young physician, Thomas Hunt, in charge of the situation with Dr. Stone as first assistant. The experiences shared by the two young doctors brought them into a friendship, which lasted throughout their lives. They were on Folly Island for three weeks, during which time Dr. Stone ignited the imagination of Hunt with the great medical possibilities in epidemic-ridden Louisiana. It is said that these two kindred spirits discussed plans for a medical college in New Orleans. After several weeks, the quarantine was lifted, and Warren Stone departed for New Orleans while Hunt returned to his home in Charleston, accompanied by an attack of cholera. Hunt resolved to join Stone in New Orleans as soon as possible. When Dr. Stone arrived in New Orleans, he found the city plagued with epidemics of yellow fever and cholera. He immediately accepted a position at Charity Hospital, which had just been completed. When Hunt later reached New Orleans, he also joined the staff of Charity Hospital, all the while cherishing his dream of a medical college in the city. In addition to resuming his friendship with Stone, he also became associated with other young physicians: John Hoffman Harrison, Thomas Ingalls, Charles A. Luzenberg, James Monroe Mackie, Augustus Cenas, and Edwin Bathurst Smith. Men of vision, energy, and determination, all were graduates of reputable medical schools. Realizing the need for educated physicians in the South, they visualized the growth of a medical school in New Orleans built around the clinics of Charity Hospital. When Dr. Hunt was ready to begin the project of which he had long dreamed, he turned to Drs. Stone, Luzenberg, and Harrison. "These four pooled their resources, making a sort of informal, unchartered stock company, chose the other doctors to help, nddivided up the fields of instruction..."1 A Prospectus was published in The Bee (September 1834), written by Thomas Hunt and bearing the signatures of Drs. Hunt, Luzenberg, Harrison, Mackie, Cenas, Ingalls, and Smith. The daring, optimistic Prospectus stated that the young doctors hoped to "...advance the cause of science, and to disseminate rational principles so as to remove or alleviate human suffering..."2 Although the Prospectus was received with catcalls rather than enthusiasm, the young physicians' determination remained undaunted.

Late 1800s to present

The first permanent building for the school was constructed in the

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in 1844. In 1893, the school moved to Canal Street in the Richardson building, and then shortly after to the Hutchison Building, also on Canal. Finally, in 1930, the school moved to its current location—the Hutchinson Memorial Building—on Tulane Avenue, next to Charity Hospital. In 2007, the school acquired the Murphy Oil Building on S. Robertson by donation. The Murphy building houses the DeBakey Educational Center, a simulation center, a student lounge with gym, and several administrative offices. The school refused to fill out the U.S. News statistical survey, and so is unranked for both Research and Primary Care by '' U.S. News & World Report''.

Admissions and research

The school has highly competitive admissions, accepting only 175 medical students from more than 12,000 applications. About 40 percent of the students in each class are concurrently enrolled as candidates for the

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degree in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. It is estimated that Tulane University has graduated more than 40 percent of all physicians in the U.S. who have earned both M.D. and master of public health degrees. In 2001, the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy started as the first major center in the U.S. to focus on research using adult stem cells. Today, the medical school is but one part of the

Health Sciences Center, which includes the School of Medicine, the Tulane University Hospital and Clinic, the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the University Health Service, the Tulane National Primate Research Center, the U.S.-Japan Biomedical Research Laboratories, and the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research. Most components of the Health Sciences Center are located in the heart of New Orleans, in the medical district that comprises Tulane facilities and the LSU/Charity Hospital center just north of the

. It comprises 20 academic departments: Anesthesiology, Biochemistry, Family and Community Medicine, Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Neurosurgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Physiology, Psychiatry and Neurology, Radiology, Structural and Cellular Biology, Surgery and Urology. The school periodically hosts social events with the

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and the

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. On August 31, 2009, Louisiana Governor

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along with Tulane President

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and

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President

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approved a plan to establish both schools as board members for the future $1.1 billion

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. Ground was broken in 2011 and the hospital opened on August 1, 2015. The 446-bed hospital serves as the flagship for Tulane medical students and residents.

Facilities

* Tulane's Medical Library, The Rudolph Matas Health Sciences Library, is named after the renowned Professor of Surgery at Tulane University

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, despite the journal Science stating of Matas that "his colleagues have felt for many years that by consulting him they could extract more information from his encyclopedic mind than they could obtain from a visit to a library." (Science, 1934) * The Tulane Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Team Training gives medical students, residents, practicing physicians, nurses, technicians, first responders and other healthcare providers the opportunity to learn and perfect the latest techniques and best practices for patient care and safety. The Tulane Sim Center features of real-life environments and meeting space for hands-on training, instruction and skills assessment including an Emergency Room, Intensive Care Unit, Operating Room, Labor & Delivery room, 4 Hospital Patient Rooms, 4 Office Exam Rooms, and a Nurses Station. The Tulane University: Standardized Patient Center through Foundations in Medicine is the first to pilot low-cost Virtual Reality through Google Cardboard for first year medical students.

Notable alumni and faculty

James Andrews (physician) James Andrews (born May 2, 1942) is an American orthopedic surgeon. He is a surgeon for knee, elbow, and shoulder injuries and is a specialist in repairing damaged ligaments. Practicing in Gulf Breeze, Florida, Andrews has become one of the best ...

, M.D., Former house staff, orthopedics (1969–1972), internationally known orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist. Founder of American Sports Medicine Institute, member of the Sports medicine Committee of the United States Olympic Committee. team physician for a number of professional and collegiate teams. Surgeon to numerous professional athletes including Jack Nicklaus, Michael Jordan, Emmitt Smith, John Smoltz, Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Troy Aikman, Charles Barkley, Bo Jackson, and many others. * Charles Cassidy (C.C.) Bass, M.D., 1899, pioneer researcher on malaria, hookworm, and dental caries; Dean, Tulane School of Medicine, 1922-40 (Tulane's Golden Years). *

Elizabeth Bass Mary Elizabeth Bass (April 5, 1876 – January 26, 1956) was an American physician, educator and suffragist. She was the first of two women to become faculty members at the medical school of Tulane University along with Edith Ballard. Bass worked ...

, M.D., 1911, one of the first women faculty at the medical school, three years before women were admitted as students *

Stanhope Bayne-Jones Stanhope Bayne-Jones (November 6, 1888 – February 20, 1970) was an American physician, bacteriologist, medical historian and a United States Army medical officer with the rank of brigadier general. Early years Bayne-Jones was born on Nove ...

, Military Physician and Academic, noted for his contributions to the link between smoking and cancer. * Cyril Y. Bowers, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Medicine *

George E. Burch George Edward Burch, M.D. (1910–1986) was a shaper of modern cardiology during the middle part of the twentieth century, whose accomplishments included elucidating the fundamental physiological basis of important cardiovascular diseases, in add ...

, M.D., 1933, internationally known cardiologist; Editor, ''American Heart Journal''. 1959-1982; Chairman of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Cardiovascular Diseases and Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Army on Environmental Medicine and Physiology involved in successfully sending the first two chimpanzees into space, continuing as a consultant to NASA * Alston Callahan M.D., 1933, pioneer in the field of reconstructive eye surgery; established the Eye Foundation Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama; instrumental in starting the Ophthalmology Department at the

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and served as first Chairman *

Jay Cavanaugh Dr. Jay Cavanaugh (1949–2005) was a prominent supporter of medical marijuana. He was appointed to thCalifornia State Board of Pharmacyfor ten years by three Governors. He also worked in drug abuse recovery. In 2001 he became National Direct ...

, Ph.D, 1994, member, California State Board of Pharmacy (1980–90), director, American Alliance for Medical Cannabis, 2001 *

Max Dale Cooper Max Dale Cooper (born August 31, 1933, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi), ForMemRS, is an American immunologist and Professor of Pathology at Emory University known for identifying T cells and B cells. Education and career Cooper obtained his medica ...

, M.D., M, 1957, Former House Staff (Peds), 2019

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(with Jacques Miller) for their discovery of the two distinct classes of lymphocytes, B and T cells – a monumental achievement that provided the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system and launched the course of modern immunology *

Harold Cummins Harold Cummins M.D. (May 28, 1893 – May 12, 1976) was an anatomist and dermatoglyphics specialist. He is considered to be the founder of dermatoglyphics. Early life and education A native of Markleville, Indiana, Cummins attended the Unive ...

, M.D., anatomist, Emeritus professor of Anatomy *

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, M.D., MPH&TM, epidemiologist, assistant director of the

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in 2020 during the

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, co-founder and CEO of The Public Health Company. *

Michael E. DeBakey Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was a Lebanese-American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College ...

, M.D., 1932, pioneer of modern medicine (cardiovascular surgery) and recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal * David John Doukas, M.D., Professor and James A. Knight Chair of Medical Humanities and Ethics in Medicine *

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. Hugo Tristram Engelhardt Jr. (April 27, 1941 – June 21, 2018) was an American philosopher, holding doctorates in both philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and medicine from Tulane University. He was a professor of philosophy at Rice ...

, M.D.; Ph.D. Tulane 1972. American philosopher specializing in continental philosophy and medical ethics. Professor of philosophy at Rice University. * Paul Finger, M.D., 1982, pioneered the use of palladium-103 plaque radiation to treat choroidal melanoma and 3D and high-frequency ultrasound to image intraocular tumors. * Arthur Gottlieb M.D., faculty (1975–1988), Chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and professor of Medicine *

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, faculty (1973–1985), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998) *

Thomas Naum James Thomas Naum James (24 October 1925 - 11 September 2010) was a leading American cardiologist during the last half of the twentieth century. He was chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and then president ...

, M.D., 1949, director, World Health Organization cardiovascular center *

Ruth L. Kirschstein Ruth Lillian Kirschstein (12 October 1926 – 6 October 2009) was an American pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Kirschstein served as director of the National Institute of General Medical Scienc ...

, M.D., 1951, director, National Institutes of Health, for whom the Kirschstein NRSA grant program is named *

, M.D., 1880, "father of vascular surgery" * William Larimer Mellon, Jr., M.D., M’53, founder, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Haiti *

Alton Ochsner Alton Ochsner Sr. (May 4, 1896 – September 24, 1981) was an American surgeon and medical researcher who worked at Tulane University and other New Orleans hospitals before he established The Ochsner Clinic. Now known as Ochsner Medical Cen ...

, faculty, founder of Ochsner Clinic, pioneer anti-smoking advocate, President of the American Cancer Society, President of the American College of Surgeons, President of the International Society of Surgeons, Chairman of the Section on Surgery for the American Medical Association, and President of the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation; received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Medical Association in 1967; popularized blood typing and blood transfusion in Europe; physician to Argentina's Juan Perón. *Donald J. Palmisano, M.D., A&S 1960, M 1963, President of the American Medical Association. *

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, M.D. 1904, member of the

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for St. Landry Parish from 1932 to 1936. * Leslie Vaughn Rush, the surgeon who performed first successful bone pinning * Joseph F. Sackett, M.D., neuroradiologist and professor of radiology *

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, former faculty, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1977), French Legion of Honor *

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, M.D., 1935, U.S. surgeon general (1961–1965) *

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, former faculty (1948–1950), physician, researcher, and essayist *

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, physician and coroner who served in the

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from

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and West Feliciana parishes from 1944 to 1954; graduate of

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in 1900, studied surgery at Tulane in 1905 and 1906

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, ''A History of Louisiana'', Vol. 2, (Chicago and New York City: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925), pp. 259-260 * Paul Wehrle, physician who helped develop of methods to prevent and treat polio and smallpox *

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, a gynecologist and pioneer in the study of Reproductive Medicine. He was a founding member and President (1953-54) of the

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, and founding member of the Tulane Medical School History of Medicine Society *

Maxwell Wintrobe Maxwell Myer Wintrobe (October 27, 1901 – December 9, 1986) was an Austrian-born American physician who was a 20th-century authority in the medical field of hematology. His 1942 textbook on hematology, ''Clinical Hematology'', was the first d ...

, M.D.; Ph.D., Tulane, 1929, faculty (1927–30), pioneer in hematology developing method for hematocrit and sedimentation rate measurement and Wintrobe indices (MCV, MCH, MCHC) while at Tulane. Rewriting Musser's chapter on Diseases of Blood for ''Tice Practice of Medicine'' subsequently becomes the basis for Wintrobe's ''Clinical Hematology'' textbook.

Popular culture references

*'' St. Elsewhere'': Howie Mandel's character, Dr. Wayne Fiscus, attended Tulane Medical School. *''

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'': In the episode " Rooms with a View," when speaking of Niles' heart surgeon's past, Frasier remarks, "You all know how I feel about Tulane Medical School." *''

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'': Dr. Preston Burke graduated from Tulane University for undergrad, and can be seen sporting his university's T-shirt in a few scenes after he's finished exercising or woken up.

Affiliations

Tulane Medical Center The Tulane Medical Center is a hospital located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Tulane Medical Center has centers covering nearly all major specialties of medicine, and is the primary teaching hospital for the Tulane University School of Medicine. ...

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* Veterans Affairs Medical Center * Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Clinical departments

Centers

Center for Gene Therapy

Center for Infectious Diseases

General Clinical Research Center

Hayward Genetics Center

Hypertension and Renal Center

Tulane Center for Clinical Effectiveness and Prevention (TCCEP)

Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities

Tulane Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Team Training

Programs

Clinical Research Curriculum Award Training Program

Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences

Neuroscience

Physiology

TUHC Centers of Excellence

Depaul-Tulane Behavioral Health Center

Tulane Cancer Center

Tulane Center for Abdominal Transplant

Tulane Hospital for Children

Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine

Tulane-Xavier National Women's Center

References

External links

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