Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Hospitals in U.S.

NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center (NYP/CUIMC), also known as the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), is an

Mailman School of Public Health, as well as the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, the New York State Psychiatric Institute
, the Audubon Biomedical Research Park, and other institutions.

The campus covers several blocks—primarily between West

.

History

CUIMC was built in the 1920s on the site of Hilltop Park, the one-time home stadium of the New York Yankees. The land was donated by Edward Harkness, who also donated most of the financing for the original buildings. Built specifically to house a medical school and Presbyterian Hospital, it was the first academic medical center in the world. Formerly known as the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMC), the name change followed the 1997 formation of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, a merger of two medical centers each affiliated with an Ivy League university: Columbia-Presbyterian with Columbia University, and New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, with Cornell University's Weill Cornell Medical College.

The Medical and Graduate Education Building was designed by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler and the structural engineer was Leslie E. Robertson Associates.[1]

In September 2016, the campus was renamed for one of the hospital and the university's largest benefactors, Herbert and Florence Irving.[2] Herbert Irving was a co-founder and former vice-chairman of Sysco.

The hospital completed the first successful

dilantin, to treat epilepsy,[4] and the isolation of the first known odour receptors in the nose.[5]

The institution supported discoveries related to how memory is stored in the brain, and Nobel Prize-winning developments in cardiac catheterization (1956) and cryo-electron microscopy (2017).[6]

On July 25, 2023, former Columbia OBGYN Robert Hadden was sentenced in federal court to concurrent 20-year sentences for enticing and inducing women, including one minor, to travel to his offices from other states to engage in illegal sex acts.

Gallery

  • Entrance to the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
    Entrance to the
    Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
  • Hammer Health Science Center
    Hammer Health Science Center
  • Irving Cancer Research Center
    Irving Cancer Research Center
  • Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion
    Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion
  • Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center
    Vivian and Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center
  • Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute
    Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute
  • Milstein Hospital Building
    Milstein Hospital Building

References

Notes

  1. ^ Nadine M. Post (March 24, 2015), Mind-Bender In Upper Manhattan Engineering-News Record. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  2. ^ "Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian Announce Naming of Medical Campus for Herbert and Florence Irving". PRNewswire. September 21, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  3. ^ Evans, Heidi (April 13, 2003). "TALK ABOUT A GUY WITH A LOT OF HEART 1st kid to get new ticker wants to be doc". New York Daily News. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  4. PMID 3527690
    . Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  5. ^ Axel, Richard. "SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY: A MOLECULAR LOGIC OF OLFACTORY PERCEPTION" (PDF). Nobel Lecture. The Nobel Prize Committee. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  6. ^ Bec Crew (August 27, 2019). "The top 5 healthcare institutions for scientific research in 2018". Retrieved October 24, 2019.

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