The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), now known as UR Medicine, is located in

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, is one of the main campuses of the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private university, private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants Undergraduate education, undergraduate and graduate degrees, including Doctorate, do ...

and comprises the university's primary medical education, research and patient care facilities.

Schools and facilities

URMC is one of the largest facilities for medical treatment and research in

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and includes a regional

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Center,

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Center,

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Center,

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Center, an

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Center,

Psychiatric Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry. Initial psy ...

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Emergency and treatment departments,

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Transplant Center and

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Transplant Center and also includes a major

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Treatment Center and an

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-designated AIDS

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Evaluation Unit. A large portion of the university's biomedical research is conducted in the Arthur Kornberg Medical Research Building and the Aab Institute of Biomedical Sciences. In January 2008, the

announced a $500 million strategic plan geared toward expansion in research and patient services. The plan anticipated adding 1,800 new jobs to the university, building a 123-bed addition to the hospital, a building for clinical and translational sciences, and a new ambulatory surgery center.

Strong Memorial Hospital

Strong Memorial Hospital is the main

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and patient care facility at the University of Rochester and is housed within the main complex of the URMC. It is a

Level I trauma center A trauma center (or trauma centre) is a hospital equipped and staffed to provide care for patients suffering from major traumatic injuries such as falls, motor vehicle collisions, or gunshot wounds. A trauma center may also refer to an emergen ...

serving the Rochester area.

Golisano Children's Hospital

Golisano Children's Hospital (GCH) formerly Children's Hospital at Strong, is a nationally ranked, freestanding acute care

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hospital in

. It is affiliated with the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. The hospital has 190 pediatric

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. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21. The hospital also treats adults that require pediatric care. The hospital shares the rooftop helipad for the attached

Strong Memorial Hospital Strong Memorial Hospital (SMH) is an 886-bed medical facility, part of the University of Rochester Medical Center complex (abbreviated URMC), in Rochester, New York, United States. Opened in 1926, it is a major provider of both in-patient and ou ...

and is an ACS verified level I pediatric trauma center, one of the only ones in the region. The hospital features a regional

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and an

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verified level IV neonatal intensive care unit.

School of Medicine and Dentistry

The School of Medicine and Dentistry (SMD) is an accredited

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and school for advanced dental education, with graduate education programs in biomedical, biological and health sciences. The facilities of the school are located in the URMC complex and the adjoining Arthur Kornberg Medical Research Building with research facilities. Dental education and patient facilities are located within the URMC complex and the Eastman Institute for Oral Health. SMD has ranked in the top 35 graduate schools by '' U.S. News & World Report'' several times. SMD also received a full six-year accreditation by the

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for its 26 residency programs at Strong Memorial Hospital in 2005. The medical school opened in 1925, and its first class graduated in 1929.

School of Nursing

The School of Nursing is an accredited

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education program located in the Helen Wood Hall building of URMC. In 2018, the school's Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program was ranked the 12th best in the U.S., with the School of Nursing landing 37th for the nursing master’s program and the Family Nurse Practitioner program ranked 17th by ''U.S. News''.

Recent developments

Several programs and centers have been founded at URMC. In 2006, a cancer stem cell research program was established at the Wilmot Cancer Center, one of only three such programs in the United States, the others being at

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and

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. In 2006, a new Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute was announced. The program was awarded a $40 million

grant. In 2013, URMC acquired Lakeside Hospital in Brockport and renamed it URMC Strong West. When it reopened, it had an urgent care center and planned to add an emergency department. Since 2016, URMC has created a network of Urgent Care centers branded as UR Medicine Urgent Care in the Rochester, NY area.

Funding and budget

URMC comprises the largest portion of the University of Rochester's annual budget. For the 2004-2005 fiscal year, URMC's patient care and hospital resources accounted for 59% of the total university budget at $910 million. URMC also makes up a large portion of the university's $232 million research budget.

Famous Faculty

George Packer Berry George Packer Berry (29 December 1898–5 October 1986) was an American physician and medical educator. He served as dean of Harvard Medical School for sixteen years and is credited with greatly modernizing that institution's medical education ...

(Prof. 1932-1949), later dean of Harvard Medical School *

Henrik Dam Carl Peter Henrik Dam ( da, Carl Peter Henrik Dam), (21 February 1895 – 17 April 1976) was a Danish biochemist and physiologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for joint work with Edward Doisy in discovering vitamin ...

(Prof. 1942-1945), Nobel laureate (1943, physiology or medicine) *

George L. Engel George Libman Engel (December 10, 1913 – November 26, 1999) was an American internist and psychiatrist. He spent most of his career at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York. He is best known for his formulation of the ...

, psychiatrist and creator of biopsychosocial model * Paul Fiset,

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and developer of the

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Kenneth Ouriel Kenneth Ouriel (born October 21, 1956) is a vascular surgeon and medical researcher. He has published in scientific and medical journals. He treated former presidential candidate Bob Dole for an abdominal aortic aneurysm in 2001. In the middle ...

, vascular surgeon and researcher *

George Hoyt Whipple George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George ...

(Prof. 1914-1976), Nobel laureate (1934, physiology or medicine)

Alumni

Jason Diamond Jason B. Diamond, M.D., F.A.C.S. (born December 21, 1970 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American facial plastic surgeon(ENT) and television personality. Early life Diamond attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Career Diam ...

, plastic surgeon *

Arthur Kornberg Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic ac ...

, molecular biologist who won the

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1959 for his discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)."

Severo Ochoa Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (; 24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in ...

of New York University was a co-recipient of the award. * Richard Locksley, medical doctor, professor and researcher of infectious diseases at the

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It con ...

William Masters William Howell Masters (December 27, 1915 – February 16, 2001) was an American gynecologist, best known as the senior member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team. Along with his partner Virginia E. Johnson, he pioneered research i ...

, sexologist * Philip A. Pizzo, David and Susan Heckerman Professor and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and former Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine *

Renée Richards Renée Richards (born August 19, 1934) is an American ophthalmologist and former tennis player who competed on the professional circuit in the 1970s, and became widely known following male-to-female sex reassignment surgery, when she fought to ...

, former professional tennis player *

Eric Topol Eric Jeffrey Topol (born 26 June 1954) is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, and a ...

, Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer, cardiologist *

Warren Zapol Warren M. Zapol (1942-14 December 2021) was the emeritus Anesthetist-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital (1994-2008) and the Reginald Jenney Distinguished Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School. From 1994 to 2008, Zapol serve ...

, director of the

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Anesthesia Center for Critical Care Research

References

External links

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Schools and facilities

Strong Memorial Hospital

Golisano Children's Hospital

School of Medicine and Dentistry

School of Nursing

Recent developments

Funding and budget

Famous Faculty

Alumni

See also

References

External links