Facts and History
Historical timeline of the notable events and achievements of the Department of Medicine
1909
First year of medical instruction begins with students to receive MD degrees in 1913
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1914
Department of Medicine becomes the School of Medicine and includes divisions of medicine, neurology, psychiatry, jurisprudence, and dermatology
1916
Albion Hewlett succeeds Wilbur and heads Department of Medicine and its subdivisions
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1925
Medicine Clerkship introduced for third-year medical students to provide practical ward experience
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1926
Arthur Bloomfield named chair of the Department of Medicine
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1954
David Rytand succeeds Bloomfield. In 1958, Rytand becomes the first Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor of Medicine
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(Left to right: Robert Glaser, John Steward, David Rytand)
1957
Rose Payne discovers the role of human leukocyte antigens in the immune system, leading to tissue matching techniques for organ transplants
Late 1950s-1960s
Characterization of hyperaldosteronism by John Luetscher
1961
Internal Medicine residency program begins with Saul Rosenberg as the program director
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1963
Saul Rosenberg establishes one of the first U.S. academic oncology programs in the Department of Medicine
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1964
Judith Pool discovers technique for extracting anti-hemophilic globulin, the blood fraction needed to prevent bleeding in hemophiliacs
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1968
Gerald Reaven and John Farquhar discover that insulin resistance is the principal physiologic characteristic of mild type-II diabetes and obesity
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1972
First U.S. studies of community-wide health education for preventing heart disease
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1972
Immunologist Hugh McDevitt discovers new class of regulatory genes that controls the immune response to foreign substances
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1975
Peter Wood and colleagues discover a link between exercise and increased HDL cholesterol levels
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1979
Bryan Myers publishes landmark paper elucidating the properties of the human glomerulus and tubule in health and disease
1981
Ronald Levy successfully uses monoclonal antibodies to treat cancer
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1985
Kelley Skeff and Georgette Stratos first to introduce ‘train the trainer’ model in faculty development
1987
Protégé Knowledge Authoring Environment: An open-source platform for the encoding of knowledge in machine-understandable form. Used to build a wide range of clinical decision support systems and adopted by WHO for creation of ICD-11
1987
First successful bone marrow transplant completed by Karl Blume
1992
First family medicine clerkship launched
2009
Stanford holds first symposium on Bedside Medicine
