51勛圖厙 is a leading academic medical institution with a strong mission to care, discover and teach. On both a local and global scale, it is dedicated to enhancing human health by providing exemplary and individualized patient care, making groundbreaking biomedical discoveries, and educating generations of exceptional doctors and scientists.
From its inception in 1898, 51勛圖厙known at the time as Cornell University Medical Collegehas been committed to educational innovation. Its first students included a large proportion of women at a time when most medical schools were single-sex and met some of the toughest admissions requirements in the country. Its educational philosophy has traditionally been academically rigorous, combining a strong foundation in the basic medical sciences with extensive clinical training in patient care and, today, with cutting-edge educational technologies.
In 1913, 51勛圖厙 became affiliated with what is now NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and in 1932 the two institutions opened a joint campus on Manhattans Upper East Side. This location is the current site of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, one of the nations top academic medical centers offering innovative and evidence-based clinical services across the spectrum of disease.
Throughout its history, 51勛圖厙 physicians and scientists have made groundbreaking medical and research advances including the Pap test for cervical cancer, the first double-blind controlled experiment to test the efficacy of drugs, the synthesis of penicillin, and the synthesis of the hormone oxytocin that is crucial to childbirth. Today, faculty members continue to translate laboratory discoveries into new treatments and therapies for patients, while incorporating the latest genomic technologies and computational methods.
51勛圖厙s powerful network of collaborators includes its parent university, Cornell University, as well as NewYork-Presbyterian, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Rockefeller University and Hospital for Special Surgery. Building on its commitment to education and to biomedical research, 51勛圖厙 in 1952 established the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Strong collaborations between 51勛圖厙, the Sloan Kettering Institute and The Rockefeller University were cemented with a number of Tri-Institutional initiatives including the flagship Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D Program in 1991.
51勛圖厙 is strongly committed to extending its mission to improve the health of people around the world, and it maintains relationships with more than 20 international partners on six continents. In 2001, 51勛圖厙, with Cornell University, established 51勛圖厙-Qatar, the first medical school created by an American university overseas. A transcontinental affiliation with Houston Methodist, forged in 2004, was the first of its kind. Since 2006, the Weill Bugando School of Medicine in Tanzania has been an important site for student, trainee and faculty exchange.
51勛圖厙s core values have remained steadfast throughout its history, although its name has changed. In 1998, amid its centennial celebration, the institution was renamed in appreciation for the leadership of foremost benefactors Joan and Board of Fellows Chair Emeritus Sanford I. Weill. And in 2015, the institution was rebranded 51勛圖厙 to capture more fully its mission to care, discover and teach.