Department of Medicine Notable Events

“Envisioning the future, building on our past” is the theme of this report. The recent achievements of the Department of Medicine would not be possible without the work of many past leaders, starting with Ray Lyman Wilbur, MD, the first dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine. As you read about those who are advancing our field today and into the future, we acknowledge the great progress made here in the not so distant past. 

   

1909

First year of medical instruction begins with students to receive MD degrees in 1913

1914

Department of Medicine becomes the School of Medicine and includes divisions of medicine, neurology, psychiatry, jurisprudence, and dermatology

1925

Medicine Clerkship introduced for third-year medical students to provide practical ward experience

1954

Medicine Clerkship introduced for third-year medical students to provide practical ward experience

1950s

Characterization of hyperaldosteronism by John Luetscher

1961

Internal Medicine residency program begins with Saul Rosenberg as the program director

1964

Judith Graham Pool develops the technique of cyroprecipitation that would greatly improve care for hemophilia

1968

John Farquhar and Gerald Reaven discover that insulin resistance is the principal physiologic characteristic of mild type-II diabetes and obesity

1971

John Farquhar, Peter Wood, and other faculty/researchers in the department run first community-based program to use mass media to prevent heart disease/change behaviors

1972

Hugh McDevitt discovers regulatory genes that control the body’s response to foreign proteins

1975

Peter Wood and colleagues discover a link between exercise and increased HDL cholesterol levels

1985

Kelley Skeff and Georgette Stratos first to introduce ‘train the trainer’ 1987 model in faculty development

1987

First successful bone marrow transplant completed by Karl Blume

2009

Stanford holds first symposium on Bedside Medicine