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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is the
medical school A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, or part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians. Such medical degrees include the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, M ...
of Northwestern University and is located in the
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neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1859, Feinberg offers a full-time Doctor of Medicine degree program, multiple joint degree programs, graduate medical education, and continuing medical education. Feinberg ranked 17th among American
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s for research by ''U.S. News & World Report'' in 2022. It also is committed to patient care and community service. Through clinical affiliates Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, and the
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), is a not-for-profit nationally ranked physical medicine and rehabilitation research hospital based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1954, the AbilityLab is design ...
(formerly
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), is a not-for-profit nationally ranked physical medicine and rehabilitation research hospital based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1954, the AbilityLab is design ...
), Feinberg faculty provide patient care to tens of thousands of individuals every year. Feinberg and its clinical affiliates are together an $11 billion academic medical enterprise. The school has 4,766 faculty members.


History

Hosmer Johnson, Nathan Smith Davis, Ralph Isham, Edmund Andrews, David Rutter and
William Byford William Heath Byford (March 20, 1817May 21, 1890) was an American physician, surgeon, gynecologist and advocate of Women's education in the United States, medical education for women who was most notable for founding the Feinberg School of Medi ...
co-founded the medical department of
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on October 11, 1859. It was renamed the Chicago Medical College in 1863, and affiliated with Northwestern University in 1870. The Woman’s Medical College of Chicago, established in 1870 as the Woman’s Hospital Medical College, became affiliated with Northwestern in 1892 as
Northwestern University Woman’s Medical School Northwestern University Woman’s Medical School is a defunct American medical school for the professional education of women. Located in Chicago, Illinois, it was organized in 1870 as the Woman's Hospital Medical College of Chicago, and it was in ...
. The college closed in 1902 as other schools in Chicago and the nation began accepting women. In 1906, the Chicago Medical College was renamed Northwestern University Medical School. It had occupied buildings on the near south side of Chicago from 1863 until the Montgomery Ward Memorial Building was constructed in Streeterville in 1926. Northwestern University Medical School was renamed the Feinberg School of Medicine in 2002, reflecting a $75 million donation from the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foundation. Reuben Feinberg started to donate to the university after being hospitalized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital for a heart attack. The first donation, in 1988, was for $17 million to establish the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute. A $10 million donation was subsequently sent in 1996 to establish the Frances Evelyn Feinberg Clinical Neurosciences Institute. On September 1, 2013, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, the medical school's physician's group, joined Northwestern Memorial HealthCare (NMHC), the health system that includes Northwestern Memorial Hospital, forming a new physician's group called Northwestern Medical Group. Together, NMHC and Feinberg jointly share the brand "Northwestern Medicine." On May 8, 2015, exactly 90 years after Northwestern University first broke ground on its Chicago campus, Feinberg broke ground on the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center. The building opened in June 2019 and added more than 625,000 square feet and 12 stories of research space to the downtown campus.


Academic Medical Center

The Feinberg School of Medicine is part of the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. Other McGaw members include: * Anne & Robert H.
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of Chicago * Northwestern Memorial Hospital *
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), is a not-for-profit nationally ranked physical medicine and rehabilitation research hospital based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1954, the AbilityLab is design ...
(formerly
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), is a not-for-profit nationally ranked physical medicine and rehabilitation research hospital based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1954, the AbilityLab is design ...
) * Jesse Brown VA Medical Center (formerly VA Chicago Health Care System) Feinberg medical students and McGaw residents receive their clinical training at these hospitals, where nearly all the attending staff members have faculty appointments at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Residents also train at affiliates such as John H. Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, Swedish Covenant Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, and Methodist Hospital in Gary, Indiana. The medical school's primary teaching hospital is Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a modern hospital that was completed in 1999. In the 2022 '' U.S. News & World Report'' list of "Honor Roll" Hospitals, listing the top ten medical centers in the United States, Northwestern Memorial Hospital is ranked ninth, and first in Illinois and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab was ranked first in the country for rehabilitation.


Education

The Feinberg School of Medicine is home to 657 medical students. The class of students who graduated in 2022 are the 163rd graduating class. For the 2022 entering class, 8,073 people applied for 150 seats. The median undergraduate GPA and MCAT score for successful applicants are 3.92 and 520, respectively. In 2012, Feinberg's entering medical students began a new curriculum, organized into three phases and emphasizing integration of four main curricular elements: science in medicine, clinical medicine, health & society, and professional development. The goal of the renewal process is to build a more learner-centered educational program that (1) fully integrates scientific principles in a clinical context; (2) stimulates inquiry and investigation; (3) has an assessment system that comprehensively evaluates student achievement in each of the core competencies; (4) reinforces a culture of learning, teamwork, and excellence; (5) is flexible and able to meet the unique needs of individual students as they learn and differentiate. For medical students, the school offers four-year dual degree programs, which combine the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree with a
Master of Public Health The Master of Public Health or Master of Philosophy in Public Health (M.P.H.), Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH), Master of Medical Science in Public Health (MMSPH) and the Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.), International Masters for Healt ...
(MPH), a Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics (MA), a Master of Science in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety (MS), or a Master of Business Administration (MBA). Students electing to pursue the additional degrees enroll in evening classes and graduate with both degrees. Two MD/PhD programs are offered, one in combination with Northwestern University's Graduate School ( Medical Scientist Training Program) and one with the university's Institute for Neuroscience. The school also offers graduate degree programs, some in combination with other Northwestern University professional schools: * Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in basic science programs such as Biological Sciences and Clinical Psychology, and public health programs such as Health and Biomedical Informatics, Health Services and Outcomes Research, Epidemiology, and Translational Outcomes Science *
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(DPT) *Master of Medical Science (MMSc) in
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Studies *
Master of Public Health The Master of Public Health or Master of Philosophy in Public Health (M.P.H.), Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH), Master of Medical Science in Public Health (MMSPH) and the Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.), International Masters for Healt ...
(MPH) * Master of Science (MS) in programs such as Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Clinical Investigation, Genetic Counseling, Regulatory Compliance, or Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety *Master of Medical Informatics (MMI) *Master of Prosthetics and Orthotics (MPO) Additionally, the school offers a BS/ MD degree through the Honors Program in Medical Education (HPME), a seven-year combined undergraduate and medical school program.


Research

According to public financial data for Feinberg, support for competitive research grants from all external sources totaled $650 million in academic year 2021–2022. In 2022, Feinberg ranked 15th for NIH funding among American medical schools. The medical school houses more than 30 Core Facilities, including a Bioinformatics Consulting Core, Genomics Core and Human Embryonic and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Core. Faculty in the Research program at Feinberg study and mentor in a range of areas, including cancer biology, cell biology, chemical biology, drug discovery, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, genetics, genomics, medical biology, immunology, microbial pathogenesis, neuroscience, pharmacology, structural biology, biochemistry, epigenetics, epidemiology, behavioral sciences, preventive medicine, epidemiology, health outcomes, quality improvement, and translational sciences. Recent Growth In June 2019, the university opened a $560 million, 625,000 square-foot biomedical research building on the Chicago campus. The new building, the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center, is connected to the existing Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center. A second phase of build out will eventually total 1.2 million square feet in the new building when complete. Additionally, more than 250,000 square feet of space in existing campus buildings has been converted to new laboratory space. Nobel Laureates * John Eccles, an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher, received the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin for their fundamental work on the synapse. Eccles was a professor at Feinberg from 1966 to 1968

* Robert F. Furchgott, Robert Furchgott, a graduate of the class of 1940, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998 for his co-discovery of the role of nitric oxide as a signaling molecule. * Ferid Murad, an American pharmacologist and cell biologist, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998, along with Robert F. Furchgott and Louis J. Ignarro, for demonstrating that nitroglycerin and related drugs worked by releasing
nitric oxide Nitric oxide (nitrogen oxide or nitrogen monoxide) is a colorless gas with the formula . It is one of the principal oxides of nitrogen. Nitric oxide is a free radical: it has an unpaired electron, which is sometimes denoted by a dot in its che ...
into the body, which relaxed smooth muscle by elevating intracellular cyclic GMP. Murad was an adjunct professor at Feinberg from 1988 to 1998


Rankings

In 2022, Feinberg was ranked 17th among American medical research schools by ''U.S. News & World Report''. The school is ranked 15th in the National Institutes of Health funding rankings among all American Medical Schools. The school's major affiliated teaching hospitals rank in ''U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals'' 2020-2021 as follows: * Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, ranked first in the nation for physical medicine and rehabilitation hospitals * Northwestern Memorial Hospital, ranked ninth in the nation of America's Best Hospitals * Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, nationally ranked in 10 specialties


Notable alumni

* Nicholas Senn, Class of 1868, an early surgeon-scientist and founder of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. He was a former president of the American Medical Association in 1897. *
Mary Harris Thompson Mary Harris Thompson, MD, (April 15, 1829May 21, 1895), was the founder, head physician and surgeon of the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children, renamed Mary Harris Thompson Hospital after her death in 1895. She was one of the first women ...
, Class of 1870, ''ad eundem'', first female surgeon in Chicago and first female surgeon at Cook County Hospital. Founder of the Mary Thompson Hospital * James R. Walker, Class of 1873, joined the United States Indian Service and spent his professional life caring for and describing the society and norms of the Lakota, becoming an early scholar of Indian life as reported in his book ''The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of the Teton Dakota''. * Sarah Hackett Stevenson, Class of 1874, the first female member of the American Medical Association (AMA), head of the Illinois State Medical Society's committee on progress in physiology, and a leader and advocate for the emancipation of women and for the equal treatment of men and women. *
Roswell Park Roswell Park (May 4, 1852 – February 15, 1914) was an American physician, best known for starting Gratwick Research Laboratory in 1898, which is now known as Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 1900, the Gratwick family of Buffalo help ...
, Class of 1876, surgeon for whom Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, is named *
Franklin H. Martin Franklin Henry Martin (July 13, 1857 – March 7, 1935) was an American physician. He was the founder of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons and established the American College of Surgeons. Ritter was a member of the National Adviso ...
, Class of 1880, former Director-General of the
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and founding editor of ''Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics'' *
John Addison Fordyce John Addison Fordyce (born 16 February 1858 in Guernsey County, Ohio, died on 4 June 1925 in New York City) was an American dermatologist, whose name is associated with Fordyce's spot (also known as Fordyce's disease or Fordyce's lesion), Angioker ...
, Class of 1881, American dermatologist whose name is associated with Fordyce's spot, Angiokeratoma of Fordyce, Brooke–Fordyce trichoepithelioma, Fordyce's disease, Fordyce's lesion, and Fox–Fordyce disease * Daniel Hale Williams, Class of 1883, performed the first successful pericardial heart surgery in America; only African-American charter member of the American College of Surgeons * Charles Horace Mayo, Class of 1888, founder of
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* Carlos Montezuma, Class of 1889, one of the first Native Americans to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from any school, and founder of the Society of American Indians * Joseph Bolivar DeLee, Class of 1891, an American physician who became known as the father of modern obstetrics. DeLee founded the Chicago Lying-in Hospital, where he introduced the first portable infant incubator. *
Anne Hazen McFarland Anne Hazen McFarland, M.D. (, McFarland; after first marriage, Cromwell; after second marriage, Sharpe; October 10, 1868 – December 13, 1930) was an American physician and medical journal editor. Early life and education Anne Hazen McFarland wa ...
, Class of 1891 Woman's Medical College, physician specializing in neurology, medical journal editor *
Isaac Arthur Abt Isaac Arthur Abt (1867–1955) was an American pediatrician and the first president of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He was one of the first U.S. physicians to specialize in pediatrics and he authored an influential textbook in the first pa ...
, Class of 1891, among the first American physicians to specialize in pediatrics, author of the major pediatric textbook of the first decades of the 20th century *
George E. Hoyt George E. Hoyt (1861 – January 16, 1953) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Biography Hoyt was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin in 1861. In 1892, he graduated from what was then known as the Northw ...
, Class of 1892, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate * George Jewett, Class of 1893, first African-American medical student who simultaneously played collegiate football in the Big 10. In his honor, the George Jewett Trophy is a rivalry trophy awarded each time Northwestern plays Michigan in football. *
Emma Ann Reynolds Emma Ann Reynolds (1862-1917) was an African-American teacher, who had a desire to address the health needs of her community. Refused entrance to nurses training schools because of racism, she influenced the creation of Provident Hospital in ...
, Class of 1895, superintendent of training at Provident Hospital Training School for Nurses, physician in residence at Paul Quinn College, and the first African American woman to receive a Doctor of Medicine degree from Northwestern University *
Howard T. Ricketts Howard Taylor Ricketts (February 9, 1871 – May 3, 1910) was an American pathologist after whom the family Rickettsiaceae and the order Rickettsiales are named. He was born in Findlay, Ohio. In the early part of his career, Ricketts undertook ...
, Class of 1897, discovered bacteria of the genus ''Rickettsia'', and identified the cause and methods of transmission of rocky mountain spotted fever * Henry Stanley Plummer, Class of 1898, internist, endocrinologist and one of the founding partners of the
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. Considered to be the architect of the modern medical practice. The
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on the Mayo Clinic campus was named after him, as were Plummer-Vinson Syndrome and Plummer’s nails. *
Allen B. Kanavel Allen B. Kanavel (1874, Sedgwick, Kansas – 1938 Pasadena, California) was an American surgeon remembered for describing Kanavel's sign. He graduated from the Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1899. He spent six months in Vienna, ...
, Class of 1899, founder, regent, and president of the American College of Surgeons, internationally recognized as founder of modern hand and peripheral nerve surgery *
Julius Hess Julius Hess (January 26, 1876 – November 2, 1955) was an American physician who is often considered the father of American neonatology. In 1922, he published the first textbook focused on the care of prematurity and birth defects in infants. ...
, Class of 1899, a pediatrician considered the father of American neonatology. In 1922, he published the first textbook on prematurity and birth defects, and started the first premature infant station in the United States. *
Clifford G. Grulee Clifford Grosselle Grulee (January 3, 1880 – October 24, 1962) was an American pediatrician and a founding member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Life and career Grulee was born in 1880 in Newport, Kentucky. He was raised in Oxford, Oh ...
, a pediatrician and founding member of the American Academy of Pediatrics *Loyal E. Davis, Class of 1918, American neurosurgeon, Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University Medical School, President of the American College of Surgeons, and adoptive father of former First Lady of the United States
Nancy Reagan Nancy Davis Reagan (; born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was the second wife of president Ronald Reagan. Reagan was born in N ...
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Theodore K. Lawless Theodore Kenneth (T.K.)"Theodore La ...
, Class of 1919, African-American dermatologist and philanthropist; advanced the treatment of leprosy and syphilis *
Arthur Falls Arthur Grand Pre’ Falls (December 25, 1901—January 9, 2000) was an African-American physician and activist based in Chicago. He became in 1925 the founder of the city's first Catholic Worker. A graduate of the medical school at Northwestern U ...
, Class of 1925, African-American physician and activist who played a major role in desegregation of Chicago's health facilities *
Alfred Bitini Xuma Alfred Bathini Xuma, OLG, commonly referred to by his initials as AB Xuma (8 March 1893 – 27 January 1962), was the first black South African to become a medical doctor, as well as a leader, activist and president-general of the African Nation ...
, Class of 1926, surgeon in Johannesburg and later president (1940–49) of the African National Congress, preceding Nelson Mandela. The first black South African to graduate from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (1932) *
William F. Windle William Frederick Windle (October 10, 1898, Huntington, Indiana – February 20, 1985, Granville, Ohio) was an American anatomist and experimental neurologist. Biography Windle graduated in 1921 with a B.S. from Denison University. At Northwestern ...
, Class of 1926, 1968 winner of the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work on brain development and injury *Eric Oldberg, Class of 1927, neurosurgeon, co-discoverer of cholecystokinin, director of neurological surgery at the
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(1936-1971), director of the Chicago Board of Health (1960-1979) *
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, Class of 1930, president, Northwestern University 1949–1969; dean, Northwestern University Medical School, 1941-1949 *
William S. Kroger William Saul Kroger (April 14, 1906 – December 4, 1995) was an American medical doctor who pioneered the use of hypnosis in medicine and was co-founder and founder of medical societies and academies dedicated to furthering psychosomatic medicine ...
, Class of 1931, pioneer in the use of hypnosis in medicine and co-founder and founder of medical societies and academies dedicated to furthering psychosomatic medicine and medical hypnosis. *Kenneth Gieser, Class of 1934, co-founder of the Christian Medical Society, now
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Roger W. Robinson Roger W. Robinson (July 22, 1909 – November 11, 2010) was an American cardiologist who served as Chief of Cardiology and Chief of Medicine at Memorial Hospital, Worcester, MA. He was the director of the Lipid Research Laboratory and served as ...
, Class of 1935, a cardiologist who recognized the role of cholesterol and diet in atherosclerotic heart disease and later demonstrated that heparin prevents arterial clots. *George Peterson, Class of 1935, co-founder of the Christian Medical Society, now
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John Patrick Spiegel John Paul Spiegel (March 17, 1911  – July 17, 1991) was an American psychiatrist, and expert on violence and combat stress and the 103rd President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). As president-elect of the APA in 1973, he h ...
, Class of 1939, American psychiatrist, and expert on violence and combat stress and the 103rd president of the American Psychiatric Association. *
Robert F. Furchgott Robert Francis Furchgott (June 4, 1916 – May 19, 2009) was a Nobel Prize-winning American biochemist who contributed to the discovery of nitric oxide as a transient cellular signal in mammalian systems. Early life and education Furchgott ...
, Class of 1940, 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of nitric oxide * Cheddi Jagan, Class of 1946: President of
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from 1992 to 1997 *
Arthur DeBoer Arthur DeBoer, (July 2, 1917-July 31, 2007), was an American cardiologist specializing in cardiac surgery at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. DeBoer was one of the pioneer cardiac surgeons in Chicago and was on staff at We ...
, class of 1946, American cardiologist and first in Chicago to use cardiopulmonary bypass in heart surgery * Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Class of 1947, epidemiologist, leader of the College Alumni Health Study in the 1960s, which established the health benefits of exercise, considered the father of the modern fitness movement * Quentin D. Young, Class of 1947, leader in public health policy and medical and social justice issues; founded Physicians for a National Health Program and co-founded the
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, *
Kermit E. Krantz Kermit Edward Krantz (June 4, 1923 – July 30, 2007) was a surgeon, inventor and faculty member at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is most known as the co-developer of the Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz (MMK), a medical procedure for st ...
, Class of 1948, Distinguished University Professor of Medicine, University of Kansas. Developed the Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz (MMK) and invented the expandable tampon. Namesake of the Arey/Krantz Museum of Anatomy at the Feinberg School of Medicine. *
John A. D. Cooper John Allen Dicks Cooper (December 22, 1918 – January 27, 2002) was an American physician and educator. Cooper was born on December 22, 1918 in El Paso, Texas. He grew up in the bilingual and bicultural environment of Las Cruces, New Mexico an ...
, Class of 1951, first president of the Association of American Medical Colleges *
Thomas E. Starzl Thomas Earl Starzl (March 11, 1926 – March 4, 2017) was an Health care in the United States, American physician, Medical research, researcher, and expert on organ transplants. He performed the first human liver transplants, and has often been ...
, Class of 1952, performed the first successful liver transplant in 1967 and received the National Medal of Science in 2004 *
Robert M. Blizzard Robert M. Blizzard (June 20, 1924 July 22, 2018) was an American pediatric endocrinologist and a founding member of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society. Life and career Blizzard was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, and raised in ...
, Class of 1952, pediatric endocrinologist and pioneer of growth hormone therapy *Robert A. Kyle, Class of 1952, hematologist who developed our modern understanding of amyloidosis and various monoclonal gammopathies *
Joseph P. Kerwin Joseph Peter Kerwin (born February 19, 1932) is an American physician and former NASA astronaut, who served as Science Pilot for the Skylab 2 mission from May 25 – June 22, 1973. He was the first physician to be selected for astronaut training ...
, first physician in space, flew on three skylab missions and later served as director of Space and Life Sciences at NASA *Edmond I. Eger II, MD, Class of 1955, developed the potency concept of
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for anesthetic gasses. He also identified opportunities for new drugs to be used as anesthesia, including
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. *
Alan R. Nelson Alan R. Nelson, MD was president of the American Medical Association from 1989 to 1990, and led the development of several initiatives including the Health Access America Program. He was president of the World Medical Association from 1991 to 1992 ...
, Class of 1958, president of the American Medical Association (1989–90) and the World Medical Association (1991–92) * Robert Michels, Class of 1958, a psychiatrist who became chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at
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in 1974, served as Chairman of the Payne-Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in Manhattan for 17 years, and then served as Dean and Provost at Cornell from 1991 to 1996 *Myles Cunningham, Class of 1958, president of the
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, 1997 *
Sandra F. Olson Sandra F. Olson is an American leader for women in organized medicine. Olson earned her MD from Northwestern University Medical School in 1963, when only 5 percent of medical students were women. She continued on to do her residency Residency ma ...
, Class of 1963, GME 1969, first woman president of American Academy of Neurology, the Illinois State Medical Society, the Chicago Medical Society, and the Chicago Neurological Society *
Irun Cohen Irun Cohen (born September 1 1937, Chicago, Illinois) is an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He moved from the U.S. to Israel in 1968. His contributions to immunology includes, in 1989, the development of the theory of ...
, Class of 1963, immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. *Joseph Silva, Class of 1966, dean, University of California–Davis School of Medicine, 1997-2005 *Eugene A. Bauer, Class of 1967, vice president for medical affairs and dean,
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, 1995-2001 *
Robert F. Spetzler Robert F. Spetzler (born 1944) is a Neurosurgery, neurosurgeon and the J.N. Harber Chairman Emeritus of Neurological Surgery and director emeritus of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He retired as an active neurosurgeon in J ...
, Class of 1971, J.N. Harber Chairman Emeritus of Neurological Surgery and director emeritus of the Barrow Neurological Institute *Jay Perman, Class of 1972, president, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 2010 – present, dean, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, 2004-2010 * C. Richard Schlegel, Class of 1972, developed the dominant patent for a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) (administered as Gardasil) to prevent cervical cancer *
David J. Skorton David Jan Skorton is an American physician and academic. He has been president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) since July 15, 2019. Prior to the AAMC, he led the Smithsonian Institution, the nat ...
, Class of 1974, president of the University of Iowa 2003–2006, president of Cornell University 2006–2015, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 2015–2019 and president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019–present. *John R. Lumpkin, Class of 1974, country’s first African-American emergency room physician and authority on public health issues affecting patient care *Joseph A. Walder, Class of 1975, founder and CEO of Integrated DNA Technologies, the largest supplier of custom nucleic acids in the United States *Francisco González-Scarano, Class of 1975, neurologist working on the neurotropism of viruses, and former dean of the
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, Texas *
Diane E. Meier Diane E. Meier (born April 15, 1952), an American geriatrician and palliative care specialist. In 1999, Dr. Meier founded the Center to Advance Palliative Care, a national organization devoted to increasing access to quality health care in the U ...
, Class of 1977, American geriatrician, MacArthur Fellow, and internationally recognized expert on palliative medicine *
Janet Woodcock Janet Woodcock (born August 29, 1948) is an American physician and former Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She joined the FDA in 1986, and has held a number of senior leadership positions there, including terms ...
, Class of 1977, served as interim Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) at the FDA *
Sandra Carson Sandra Ann Carson, M.D., is the principal innovator of the first artificial human ovary. This innovation was reported in the ''Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics'', and recognized by ''Time'' magazine as one of the top 10 medical breakth ...
, Class of 1977, principal investigator of the first artificial human ovary and former president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine *Steven J. Corwin, Class of 1979, president and CEO of The New York and Presbyterian Hospital *Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, Class of 1979, former executive vice president for medical affairs, University of Michigan; CEO,
University of Michigan Health System Michigan Medicine (University of Michigan Health System or UMHS before 2017) is the wholly owned academic medical center of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan Medicine includes the Universi ...
, president of
Oakland University Oakland University is a public research university in Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan. Founded in 1957 through a donation of Matilda Dodge Wilson, it was initially known as Michigan State University-Oakland, operating under the Mi ...
*Andrew E. Senyei, Class of 1979, inventor, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur, founder of biotech and genetics companies *
Deborah Asnis Deborah Susan Asnis (July 17, 1956 – September 12, 2015) was an American infectious disease specialist and H.I.V. clinical researcher, who is credited with reporting the first human cases of West Nile virus in the United States. In August 1999 ...
, Class of 1981,
infectious disease specialist Infectious diseases or ID, also known as infectiology, is a medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of infections. An infectious diseases specialist's practice consists of managing nosocomial (hospital-acquired infection, healt ...
, discovered and reported first human cases of West Nile virus in the United States. *David J. Smith, Class of 1981, Read Admiral, joint staff surgeon/chief medical advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; United States delegate to the North American Treaty Organization Council of Medical Directors * Boris Lushniak, Class of 1981, Rear Admiral, deputy U.S. Surgeon General *Michael Parmacek, Class of 1981, chair of the Department of Medicine,
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania The Perelman School of Medicine, commonly known as Penn Med, is the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1765, the Perelman School of Medicine is the oldest medi ...
*James P. Kelly, Class of 1983, director, National Intrepid Center of Excellence *
David M. Holtzman David M. Holtzman is an American physician-scientist known for his work exploring the biological mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration, with a focus on Alzheimer's Disease. Holtzman is former Chair of the Department of Neurology, Scientific Dire ...
, Class of 1985, is a distinguished neurologist known for discovering how apoE4 contributes to Alzheimer’s Disease and how synaptic activity and sleep modulates the levels of amyloid beta and tau proteins in the brain. *
Peter G. Traber Peter George Traber is an American pharmaceutical company executive. He is the Chief Medical Officer for Selecta Biosciences. https://selectabio.com/ He has been the president and chief executive officer of Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the J ...
, Class of 1984, president, Baylor College of Medicine, 2003-2008 * Michael Barratt, Class of 1985, NASA mission specialist, 2000–present; member International Space Station Expeditions 19 and 20, 2009; on final flight of Discovery 2011 STS 133. *
Harold Paz Dr. Harold L. Paz is Executive Vice President of Health Sciences at Stony Brook University and Chief Executive Officer of Stony Brook University Medicine. He is the former Executive Vice President and Chancellor for Health Affairs at Ohio State ...
, GME 1985 and 1986, vice president and dean, Penn State Hershey Medical College * Debi Thomas, Class of 1997: 1988 Olympic Figure Skating Bronze Medalist and orthopedic surgeon


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