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History

Initial Founding

UC Board of Regents voted to establish a medical school affiliated with UCLA in 1945. In 1947, Stafford L. Warren was appointed as the first dean. Dr. Warren had served on the Manhattan Project while on leave from his post at University of Rochester School of Medicine. As the founding dean of medical school, he proved to be a capable administrator and fundraiser. His choice of core faculty consisted of his former associates at Rochester in Andrew Dowdy as the first professor of radiology, John Lawrence as the first professor of medicine, and Charles Carpenter as the first professor of infectious diseases. Along with William Longmire Jr., a promising 34-year-old surgeon from Johns Hopkins, the group along with Dean Warren was called the Founding Five. Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... This page is about the World War II nuclear project. ... The University of Rochester is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research institution located in Rochester, New York. ... Nickname: Motto: Rochester: Made for Living Location of Rochester in New York State Country United States State New York County Monroe Government  - Mayor Robert Duffy Area  - City  37. ... Image A: A normal chest X-ray. ... medicines, see medication and pharmacology. ... This false-colored electron micrograph shows a malaria sporozoite migrating through the midgut epithelia. ... The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is a highly regarded medical school and biomedical research institute in the United States. ...

Building of the medical center and the School of Medicine began in 1949. 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...

The 1951 charter class consisted of 26 men and 2 women. Initially there were 15 faculty members, although that number had increased to 43 by 1955 when the charter class graduated. The first classes were conducted in the reception lounge of the old Religious Conference Building on Le Conte Avenue. 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In July of 1955, the UCLA Medical Center was opened. UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. ...

Mellinkoff Administration

Sherman Mellinkoff succeeded Stafford Warren as dean in 1962 and served for the next 24 years. Under Dr. Mellinkoff, the school experienced unprecedented growth. The Neuropsychiatric Institute, the Brain Research Institute, and the Marion Davies Children's Center were founded. The Jules Stein Eye Institute and the Reed Neurological Research Center were established as well. By decade's end UCLA had doubled the size of the medical school and the hospital. School of Dentistry and School of Public Health as well as School of Nursing were formed as well. The medical school grew to nearly 400 medical students, more than 700 interns and residents, and almost 200 Masters and doctorate candidates. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... The UCLA School of Dentistry is the dental school of UCLA. The school is located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. ... The UCLA School of Public Health is the graduate school of public health affiliated with UCLA, and is located within the Center for Health Sciences building on the UCLA campus. ... The UCLA School of Nursing is a nursing school affiliated with UCLA, and is located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. ...

A partnership was formed with the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in 1966 to train medical students with the goal of meeting the needs of the underserved in South Los Angeles. Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science was originally founded in 1966 in response to inadequate medical facilities within the Watts region of Los Angeles, California. ... South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the south and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. ...

US News and World Report

2007 U.S. News and World Report ranks David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA at No. 11 in the U.S. in research.^[1] U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ...

Notable Alumni

Diane J. Nugent (1977) is the medical director of Hematology and Blood & Donor Services and Chief of the PSF Division of Hematology at Children's Hospital of Orange County. Hematology is the branch of medicine that is concerned with blood and its disorders. ...

Quynh G. Pham (1992) is the program director of physical medicine and rehabilitation program and pain medicine program at UCLA/VA Greater Los Angeles Multicampus PM&R Residency Program. Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) or physiatry is a branch of medicine dealing with functional restoration of a person affected by physical disability. ... Pain medicine is a branch of anaesthetics concerned with the treatment of acute and chronic pain. ... ...

Lauren Pinter-Brown (1980) is the Director of the Lymphoma Program in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, as well as a world-renowned lecturer and contributor to medical journals.

Notable faculty

• Michael Gottlieb was one of the first physicians to report a case of AIDS
• F. Michael Ferrante is a renowned pain medicine specialist
• Gerald Finerman is the chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
• David Fish is a physiatrist and an editor of a popular PM&R handbook, PM&R Pocketpedia
• Neil F. Jones is a highly regarded orthopedic hand surgeon
• Lauren Pinter-Brown is the Director of the Lymphoma Program in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine, as well as a world-renowned lecturer and contributor to medical journals.
• William G. Plested is a cardiothoracic surgeon and current president of the American Medical Association
• Joshua Prager is the president of North American Neuromodulation Society
• Arnold B. Scheibel is a professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry and former Director of the Brain Research Institute (BRI) at UCLA.
• Jeffrey Wang is a world-renowned orthopaedic spine surgeon

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Links

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA website

References

1. ^ http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/med/brief/mdrrank_brief.php