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Tulane University The Tulane University of Louisiana (commonly referred to as Tulane University) is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by a cohort of medical doctors, it b ...
and is located in the Medical District of the
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, United States.


History

The school was founded in 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana and is the fifteenth oldest medical school in the United States and the second oldest in the Deep South. The first classes were held in 1835 at a variety of locations, including Charity Hospital and the Strangers Unitarian Church.


Late 1800s to present

The first permanent building for the school was constructed in the French Quarter in 1844. In 1893, the school moved to Canal Street in the Richardson building, and then shortly after to the Hutchinson Building, also on Canal. Finally, in 1930, the school moved to its current location—the Hutchinson Memorial Building—on Tulane Avenue, next to Charity Hospital. In 2007, the school acquired the Murphy Oil Building on S. Robertson by donation. The Murphy building houses the DeBakey Educational Center, Leone Learning Center, a simulation center, a student lounge with a gym, and several administrative offices.


Admissions and research

The school has highly competitive admissions, accepting only 175 medical students from more than 12,000 applications. About 40 percent of the students in each class are concurrently enrolled as candidates for the
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degree in the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. It is estimated that Tulane University has graduated more than 40 percent of all physicians in the U.S. who have earned both M.D. and master of public health degrees. In 2001, the Tulane Center for Gene Therapy started as the first major center in the U.S. to focus on research using adult stem cells. Today, the medical school is but one part of the
Tulane University The Tulane University of Louisiana (commonly referred to as Tulane University) is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by a cohort of medical doctors, it b ...
Health Sciences Center, which includes the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, the University Health Service, the Tulane National Primate Research Center, the U.S.-Japan Biomedical Research Laboratories, and the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research. Most components of the Health Sciences Center are located in the heart of New Orleans, in the medical district that comprises Tulane facilities and the LSU/Charity Hospital center just north of the
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. It comprises 23 academic departments: Anesthesiology; Dermatology; Family & Community Medicine; the Deming Department of Medicine, which includes the sections of Cardiology, Clinical Immunology, Allergy, & Rheumatology, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Genomics, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Gastroenterology, General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Nephrology & Hypertension, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care and Environmental Medicine; Neurology; Neurosurgery; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Ophthalmology; Orthopaedics; Otolaryngology; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Pediatrics; Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences; Radiation Oncology; Radiology; Surgery; Urology; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Microbiology and Immunology; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Pharmacology; Physiology; and Structural and Cellular Biology. On August 31, 2009, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal along with Tulane President Scott Cowen and
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President John V. Lombardi approved a plan to establish both schools as board members for the future $1.1 billion University Medical Center New Orleans. Ground was broken in 2011 and the hospital opened on August 1, 2015. In 2022, LCMC Health and Tulane University announced that the organizations would form a partnership. Under this partnership, Tulane Medical Center, Lakeview Regional Medical Center, and Tulane Lakeside Hospital joined LCMC Health’s network of healthcare facilities. In January of 2024, a majority of services provided at Tulane Medical Center shifted to University Medical Center New Orleans and East Jefferson General Hospital. East Jefferson General Hospital is now the clinical home for Tulane University School of Medicine.


Facilities

Tulane's medical library, The Rudolph Matas Health Sciences Library, is named after the renowned Professor of Surgery at Tulane University Rudolph Matas, despite the journal ''Science'' stating of Matas that "his colleagues have felt for many years that by consulting him they could extract more information from his encyclopedic mind than they could obtain from a visit to a library." The Tulane Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Team Training gives medical students, residents, practicing physicians, nurses, technicians, first responders and other healthcare providers the opportunity to learn and perfect the latest techniques and best practices for patient care and safety. The Tulane Sim Center features of simulation and meeting space for hands-on training, instruction and skills assessment including an emergency room,
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, operating room, labor & delivery room, four hospital patient rooms, four office exam rooms, and a nursing station. The Tulane University: Standardized Patient Center through Foundations in Medicine is the first to pilot low-cost virtual reality through Google Cardboard for first-year medical students.


Notable alumni and faculty

* James Andrews, M.D., Former house staff, orthopedics (1969–1972), internationally known orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist. Founder of American Sports Medicine Institute, member of the Sports medicine Committee of the United States Olympic Committee. team physician for a number of professional and collegiate teams. Surgeon to numerous professional athletes including Jack Nicklaus, Michael Jordan, Emmitt Smith, John Smoltz, Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Troy Aikman, Charles Barkley, Bo Jackson, and many others. * Charles Cassidy (C.C.) Bass, M.D., 1899, pioneer researcher on malaria, hookworm, and dental caries; dean, Tulane School of Medicine, 1922-40 (Tulane's Golden Years). * Elizabeth Bass, M.D., 1911, one of the first women faculty at the medical school, three years before women were admitted as students * Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Military Physician and Academic, noted for his contributions to the link between smoking and cancer. * Cyril Y. Bowers, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Medicine * George E. Burch, M.D., 1933, internationally known cardiologist; Editor, ''American Heart Journal''. 1959-1982; chairman of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel on Cardiovascular Diseases and chairman of the advisory committee to the U.S. Army on Environmental Medicine and Physiology involved in successfully sending the first two chimpanzees into space, continuing as a consultant to NASA * Alston Callahan M.D., 1933, pioneer in the field of reconstructive eye surgery; established the Eye Foundation Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama; instrumental in starting the Ophthalmology Department at the University of Alabama School of Medicine and served as first chairman * Jay Cavanaugh, Ph.D, 1994, member, California State Board of Pharmacy (1980–90), director, American Alliance for Medical Cannabis, 2001 * Max Dale Cooper, M.D., M, 1957, Former House Staff (Peds), 2019 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (with Jacques Miller) for their discovery of the two distinct classes of lymphocytes, B and T cells – a monumental achievement that provided the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system and launched the course of modern immunology * Harold Cummins, M.D., anatomist, Emeritus professor of Anatomy * Charity Dean, M.D., MPH&TM, epidemiologist, assistant director of the
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in 2020 during the
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, co-founder and CEO of The Public Health Company. *
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, M.D., 1932, pioneer of modern medicine (cardiovascular surgery) and recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal * David John Doukas, M.D., Professor and James A. Knight Chair of Medical Humanities and Ethics in Medicine * H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., M.D.; Ph.D. Tulane 1972. American philosopher specializing in continental philosophy and medical ethics. Professor of philosophy at Rice University. * Paul Finger, M.D., 1982, pioneered the use of palladium-103 plaque radiation to treat choroidal melanoma and 3D and high-frequency ultrasound to image intraocular tumors. * Arthur Gottlieb M.D., faculty (1975–1988), chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and professor of Medicine * Louis J. Ignarro, faculty (1973–1985), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1998) * Thomas Naum James, M.D., 1949, director, World Health Organization cardiovascular center * Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D., 1951, director, National Institutes of Health, for whom the Kirschstein NRSA grant program is named * Rudolph Matas, M.D., 1880, "father of vascular surgery" * William Larimer Mellon, Jr., M.D., 1953, founder, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Haiti * Alton Ochsner, faculty, founder of Ochsner Clinic, pioneer anti-smoking advocate, president of the American Cancer Society, president of the American College of Surgeons, president of the International Society of Surgeons, chairman of the Section on Surgery for the American Medical Association, and president of the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation; received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Medical Association in 1967; popularized blood typing and blood transfusion in Europe; physician to Argentina's Juan Perón. *Donald J. Palmisano, M.D., A&S 1960, M 1963, president of the American Medical Association. * Felix Octave Pavy, M.D. 1904, member of the
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for St. Landry Parish from 1932 to 1936. * Jesse Dean Riley, M.D. 1916, Superintendent of the Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Booneville from 1930 to 1955. * Leslie Vaughn Rush, the surgeon who performed first successful bone pinning * Benjamin P. Sachs, James R. Doty Distinguished Professor and Chair * Joseph F. Sackett, M.D., neuroradiologist and professor of radiology * Andrew V. Schally, former faculty, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1977), French Legion of Honor * Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., 1935, U.S. surgeon general (1961–1965) * Lewis Thomas, former faculty (1948–1950), physician, researcher, and essayist * E. M. Toler, physician and coroner who served in the
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and West Feliciana parishes from 1944 to 1954; graduate of
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in 1900, studied surgery at Tulane in 1905 and 1906 * Paul Wehrle, physician who helped develop of methods to prevent and treat polio and smallpox * Benjamin B. Weinstein, a gynecologist and pioneer in the study of Reproductive Medicine. He was a founding member and president (1953-54) of the
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, and founding member of the Tulane Medical School History of Medicine Society * Maxwell Wintrobe, M.D.; Ph.D., Tulane, 1929, faculty (1927–30), pioneer in hematology developing method for hematocrit and sedimentation rate measurement and Wintrobe indices (MCV, MCH, MCHC) while at Tulane. Rewriting Musser's chapter on Diseases of Blood for ''Tice Practice of Medicine'' subsequently becomes the basis for Wintrobe's ''Clinical Hematology'' textbook. * Joseph Bavaria, M.D., FACS, FRCS; He attended
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as an undergraduate and graduated (honors) with a degree in chemical engineering in 1979. During his years at Tulane's Medical School, Bavaria had an externship in cardiac and thoracic surgery in Cincinnati. He graduated from Tulane's Medical School and was awarded the "Gold Scalpel Award".


Affiliations

* Tulane Medical Center * University Medical Center New Orleans * Ochsner Medical Center * Veterans Affairs Medical Center * Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine


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NIH Article
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