Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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|faculty = 3,697 |campus = Urban |website= http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org |endowment= US$ 1,913.2 Million |logo = The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins Medicine. The School of Medicine is widely regarded as one of the best medical schools and biomedical research institutes in the world. Located in East Baltimore, it is affiliated with Johns Hopkins Hospital, its major teaching hospital, as well as several other community sites, including the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Sinai Hospital, Howard County General Hospital and Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The East Baltimore campus of Johns Hopkins University is home to the School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the School of Nursing. The campus comprises several city blocks, radiating outwards from the Billings building of the Johns Hopkins Hospital with its historic dome. For years, Johns Hopkins has been the nation's top medical school in the amount of competitive research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health. According to U.S. News and World Report, it is consistently ranked among the top two medical schools in research in the United States''US NEws and World Report Rankings of Medical Schools in the United States, http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/med/brief/mdrrank_brief.php. Its major teaching hospital, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been ranked as the best hospital in the United States every year since 1992 by U.S. News and World Report. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has served as the model for most American medical schools since its founding in 1893 Ludmerer, Kenneth. The Development of American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care http://www.case.edu/artsci/wrss/documents/wrs2001-02ludmerer_002.pdf . Accessed July 8, 2007 , and has been home to many "firsts"; it was the first medical school to require its students to have an undergraduate degree. It was also the first graduate-level medical school to admit women on an equal basis as men. Mary Elizabeth Garrett, head of the Women's Medical School Fund, was a driving force behind both of these 'firsts'. In addition, Sir William Osler, the first professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and the physician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital was responsible for establishing the residency system of postgraduate medical training, where young physicians were required to "reside" within the hospital to better care for their patients.

History

Curriculum

Notable Past and Present Faculty

  • John Jacob Abel - Pharmacologist
  • Peter Agre - Molecular biologist, Nobel laureate
  • John Shaw Billings - Civil War surgeon, pioneering leader in hygiene
  • Alfred Blalock - Developed field of cardiac surgery
  • Max Brödel - Acclaimed medical illustrator
  • William R. Brody - Radiologist, President of Johns Hopkins University
  • John Cameron - Hepatobiliary surgeon
  • Ben Carson - Pediatric Neurosurgeon
  • Curt I Civin - Oncologist
  • Denton Cooley - Cardiovascular surgeon
  • Harvey Cushing - Father of modern neurosurgery
  • Walter Dandy - Neurosurgeon
  • Elliot Fishman - Radiologist
  • Carol Greider - Molecular biologist
  • William Halsted - Father of modern surgery
  • A. McGehee Harvey - Internist
  • John Eager Howard - Endocrinologist
  • Kay Redfield Jamison - Psychologist and Psychiatry professor
  • Howard Kelly - Gynecologist
  • Paul Ladenson - Thyroidologist
  • Irene H. Maumenee - Geneticist, Ophthalmologist
  • Paul McHugh - Psychiatrist
  • Victor McKusick - Developed field of medical genetics
  • Adolf Meyer - Psychiatrist
  • Russell Morgan - Radiologist
  • Daniel Nathans - Molecular biologist, Nobel laureate
  • William Osler - Father of modern medicine
  • Edwards Park - Pediatrician
  • Dorothy Reed - Pathologist
  • William Rienhoff - Surgeon
  • Florence Sabin - Anatomist
  • Hamilton O. Smith - Microbiologist, Nobel laureate
  • Solomon H. Snyder - Neuroscientist
  • Helen Taussig - Pediatric cardiologist
  • Vivien Thomas - Developed Blalock-Taussig Shunt
  • Bert Vogelstein - Molecular oncologist
  • Patrick Walsh - Urologist
  • William H. Welch - Pathologist
  • David B. Weishampel - Paleontologist, author of The Dinosauria 2004
  • Elias Zerhouni - Radiologist, Director of NIH

    • Nobel laureates

  • Peter Agre - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
  • Richard Axel - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2004
  • Joseph Erlanger - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
  • Andrew Fire - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2006
  • Herbert Spencer Gasser - Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944
  • Paul Greengard - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000
  • Haldan Keffer Hartline - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933
  • Daniel Nathans - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
  • Martin Rodbell - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1994
  • Francis Peyton Rous - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1966
  • Hamilton O. Smith - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
  • Torsten Wiesel - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1981
  • George Hoyt Whipple - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1934

    • In popular culture

  • In the Fox television program House, MD, Dr. Gregory House is a world-famous diagnostician who attended Johns Hopkins Medical School. Neurologist Dr. Eric Foreman also attended Hopkins.
  • In the TV drama Greys Anatomy'', Preston Burke is a cardiothoracic surgeon who graduated first in his class from Hopkins Med.
  • In The Simpsons, Julius Hibbert is a family physician who graduated from Hopkins Med.
  • Dr Hannibal Lecter, from The Silence of the Lambs and other books, completed his residency training at Hopkins Hospital.
  • The character of Alex Cross created by author James Patterson is a graduate of Hopkins Med.
  • In The West Wing, President Bartlet's middle daughter Ellie is a student at Hopkins Med.
  • Johns Hopkins is mentioned many times in Tom Clancy's novels: Jack Ryan's wife, Cathy, is an ophthalmology professor there.


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